Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...session's outset, they move that the Senate adopt rules for the 1959 session, as it would plainly have to do if it were not a continuing body. New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits. New Jersey's Republican Senator Clifford Case, Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey and Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas last week presented a brief to the Senate's presiding officer, Vice President Richard Nixon, making the liberal case that the Senate is not a continuing body. Basis of their argument: The Constitution provides that "each House may determine...
...sales well over $100 million a year; in Greenwich, Conn. Owner of one of the first Autogiros, Yaleman Noble had a lifelong interest in aviation, was made first chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Authority in 1938, also served for a year as first Under Secretary of Commerce. In 1940, Republican Noble quit the Roosevelt Administration to participate in the presidential campaign of Fellow Businessman Wendell Willkie. In 1943 he bought radio's Blue Network for $8,000,000. created the American Broadcasting...
...guillotine-swift blow that cut Joseph W. Martin off from the Republican leadership of the House Tuesday may rankle in G.O.P. Congressional ranks for some time. First of all, Martin was dumped with a gracelessness not soon to be forgotten by his many close friends in the House. And the 74 votes (against 70 for Martin) elevating Charles A. Halleck to the minority leader post represent an uneasy compromise between various Republican factions, one of which may well break down...
Martin's 74 years were held against him. Many Republicans felt that his leadership in political battles had withered into listlessness and lack of imagination compared to his heroic days in 1939 (his first year as Republican leader) when, he boasts, "We had only 169 Republicans in the House, and we beat the New Deal in 18 major battles in a row." Some also hint that his warm friendship with Democratic Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn led Martin to compromise on the Republican position more than necessary...
...anti-Martin voters, men who believed that the need for fresh, vigorous leadership outweighed their personal regard for genial old Joe Martin. The question then became, who should take Martin's place. This was a thorny issue, for the ranks of the insurgents were widely split. The young liberal Republicans favored a man like Gerald R. Ford Jr. of Michigan or the more experienced Richard M. Simpson of Pennsylvania. The arch-conservatives tended toward John W. Byrnes of Wisconsin (who later came out for Halleck and was made chairman of the Republican Policy Committee). But no bloc would pledge themselves...