Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the title "Morse's Right-to-Work Law" [Dec. 29], you criticized me for discharging an employee on my Eugene, Ore. farm. My employee was not discharged because he was a Republican. Neither was he discharged because he was a supporter of President Eisenhower. He was discharged because I discovered that he was not loyal to the position of trust which he occupied in my employment. [He] lived rent free in my home and was really a member of the family circle; in that relationship, he was present at many discussions within my home, both political and otherwise...
...seats were the same, but the sitters were different. Into the Cabinet Room chair at Dwight Eisenhower's left, long occupied by Senate Republican Leader William Knowland at the President's weekly legislative conferences, popped Indiana's Charles Halleck, newly installed as House G.O.P. leader. In the chair at Ike's right, reserved in the past for Cabinet officers or other Administration aides reporting to the legislators, sat new Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen. New G.O.P. Senate Whip Tom Kuchel took the place where deposed House Leader Joe Martin had always sat. And before the conference...
...coequality of the executive and legislative branches of Government. But last week the new leaders made constructive suggestions at a session marked by far more give and take than before. Charlie Halleck, for example, came up with a plan to invite White House aides and Cabinet officers to House Republican Policy Committee dinners. "Good," said President Eisenhower. "I think it's a fine idea...
...skillfully did Lyndon Johnson handle his fight for his own version of Rule XXII that the final 72-22 vote left only the extreme diehards of both the liberal and Southern sides in opposition. Thus such liberals as New York Republican Jacob Javits arid Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas found themselves isolated with such bitter-end Southerners as South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and Mississippi's James Eastland...
...know there is violent disagreement on an issue, there is only one way to address him: The able and distinguished Senator, my friend from -.' " ¶ Democratic Speaker Sam Rayburn gaveled through two friendly relief measures for his longtime opposite number and friend, Joseph W. Martin Jr., ousted Republican Floor Leader (TIME, Jan. 19). The resolutions: authorization for Martin (as the only living former Speaker of the House) to keep the chauffeured Cadillac and most of the extra staff of the leadership office he lost to Indiana's Congressman Charles Halleck. Mr. Sam grandly ruled unanimous consent...