Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican leadership fight in the Senate clearly pointed up the pre-eminent power position of New Hampshire's veteran Senator Styles Bridges, who makes no bones of his personal view that Ike is a political tyro, or of his political view that the center of governmental power should rest on Capitol Hill, not at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. ¶ Another Republican leadership fight in the House resulted in a victory for Indiana Republican Charles Halleck-but only after he specifically promised rebel forces that he would be their forceful representative to the White House rather than vice versa...
OUTNUMBERED nearly 2 to 1 in the 86th Congress, the Republican minority in the House of Representatives-as well as the embattled Eisenhower Administration -will lean heavily upon the political talents of the new G.O.P. floor leader, hard-hitting Charlie Halleck, 58, of Rensselaer, Ind. (pop. 5,000). Hoosier state professionals, players in as rough a practical political game as the country knows, rate curly-haired, paunchy Charlie Halleck a tough and ruthless performer, who has been often battered but never beaten in 35 years of office-holding. Old hands in the House, where he is a twelve-termer...
...President also said that if a Republican aspirant for the White House in 1960 doesn't go along with his basic thinking on the relationship of the government to the individual and on the need of free world cooperation, "I couldn't possibly support him." He went on to say, without naming them, that he could list half a dozen "fine, virile men in the Republican party that I would gladly support...
...statement issued to the CRIMSON last night, Biemiller said that Peterson, incumbent president of the Harvard Young Republican Club, had "disavowed HYRC intent" in the coup...
...feud over the Class Marshal election continues to be as ugly an argument as any national election scandal--and with less reason. The Young Republican Club remains the hotbed of personal spite and political pettiness that has characterized it for lo, these many years. And the Student Council would appear to be warming up to a nasty little fight for officers--again, it would seem, more a clash of personalities than of issues...