Word: republicans
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MASSACHUSETTS' JOHN MCCORMACK, 67, was elected Democratic floor leader the same month -September, 1940 -that Mister Sam became Speaker (during the two Republican Congresses since then, Rayburn became floor leader, McCormack Democratic whip). Boston-born John McCormack, a cigar-munching teetotaler, was left fatherless at 13, shined shoes, ran errands, earned his way through night law school, was elected to the House in 1928. He is a hard-knuckled politician from one of the hardest knuckled of all political schools: Massachusetts' Twelfth Congressional District. More than half Irish, the Twelfth takes in ten dingy, crowded...
...willing, two-fisted debater, McCormack once spoke on 200 different subjects in a single year, had a memorable moment when he demolished Michigan's acidulous Republican Representative Clare Hoffman in the House's own florid parliamentary language: "I'm one of the few men in the House who still has a minimum high regard for the Gentleman from Michigan...
...Republican National Committee plowed into Des Moines through six-inch snows and below-zero temperatures for an election post-mortem last week, the weather matched the mood of National Chairman Meade Alcorn. Ever since Democrats clobbered the Republicans at the polls, Alcorn has been picking apart November's returns for a clue to what happened to the G.O.P. His report: "Our party has suffered a humiliating defeat. We took a bad beating. There are no alibis -but there are reasons...
...opposition." Another reason, which rang jarringly in conservative ears: "We must get rid of the right-to-work tag pinned on our coattails." Still another: the Democrat-labor alliance. "Organized labor was able to put in one state [Maine] in behalf of opposition candidates more field men than the Republican Party had available nationally...
Losing the Anchor. Alcorn called on a research analyst, Claude Robinson of Princeton, N.J., who flashed a series of charts to point up still other causes. For one, the party is losing the flourishing white-collar voters who should be its anchor; 52% voted Republican in 1954, 38% in 1958. And it is losing its appeal to youth and becoming the party of the older voter. In November Republicans got 49% of the age-50-and-over vote, 37% of the age-49-and-under...