Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only improvement that can be made to an Ike-Nixon ticket would be a Nixon-Ike ticket, with a guarantee that Mr. Stassen is on a permanent leave of absence. Stassen has only one argument, which is: Nixon is a real Republican and he has made Democrats angry. This year the liberal voters do not like Nixon; why should they? If they did, they would not be liberal. I am not using liberal in its old sense, but rather in the modern sense, which has come to mean a pink...
TIME'S apparent preference for an Eisenhower-Nixon ticket is commendable, but its patronizing treatment of a countermovement is scarcely so. If Nixon's renomination jeopardizes the election of a Republican Congress, then his replacement by Governor Herter (or some other respected public servant) must be seriously considered...
...from early till late last week, while wire-service tickers clicked, Teletypes clattered and telephones jangled. This was our communications center for the Democratic Convention. Before the week was out, a similar center went into operation in San Francisco's Mark Hopkins, to forward preliminary stories on the Republican Convention. From the two centers will flow some half million words to help our editors not only report but illuminate the news of the conventions...
...fact that Republicans were getting along with each other did not mean that they intended to brake on the curves. Washington's Governor Arthur Langlie, the convention keynoter (see below), spurned Democratic Keynoter Frank Clement's highballing forensics. But Langlie set a hard-hitting style for the Republican campaign when he charged the Democrats with "a naked admission that they are now addicted to the principle that loyalty to a political party comes ahead of loyalty to our beloved country...
Flying to San Francisco to deliver the Republican Convention's keynote speech this week, Washington's Governor Arthur B. Langlie confided to a friend that he had watched the pyrotechnics of Democratic Keynoter Frank Clement, found them distasteful. Said Langlie: "I'll be passing up the Chicago brand of prejudicial fire and brimstone in favor of what I've tried to make a higher tone." To his wife Evelyn he fretted: "I want to be sure that nobody can say this speech has any unjustified name-calling...