Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was no magic revenue or cost breakthrough in the Eisenhower Administration's prospective balanced budget as Ike outlined it last week to Republican congressional leaders. It had come not by wave of the hand but by sweat of the brow. "There can be no real fiscal security in this country." said the President, "unless our fiscal policy is sound. Remember that." Items in the new budget...
Last session, when California's Republican Senator William Knowland announced his retirement as the Senate's G.O.P. leader to run for Governor of California, the handful of Eisenhower Republicans started talking about a real chance to take over. By last August the insurgent planning revolved around Vermont's George Aiken, New Jersey's Clifford Case and New York's Jacob Javits. After such Old Guard Republicans as Nevada's George Malone, Ohio's John Bricker-and Bill Knowland himself-got soundly whipped in the November elections, Aiken & Co. felt sure that they were...
...even as the Eisenhower Republicans sought a firmer stance, they could feel the rug being pulled out from under them by their political leader. Dwight Eisenhower, after years of insisting that the internal affairs of the Congress were none of his business, had suddenly decided to take a hand. On the record, Ike was merely pleading with Senate Republicans not to get into a ruinous fight. Actually, he was doing everything possible to defeat the Republican Senators who were battling on his behalf...
...Eisenhower State Department appointee and remains thoroughly responsive to the President's wishes, announced that he would vote for the Old Guard candidate for Senate leader, Illinois Everett Dirksen. Exception: he would support his Kentucky colleague, John Sherman Cooper, sponsored by Connecticut's Prescott Bush, for Republican leader if Cooper got into the running. But later Cooper withdrew...
...Kansas' Sixth District, where the margin of Incumbent Republican Wint Smith over Democrat Elmo J. Mahoney was so narrow (233 votes) that the committee recommended an investigation of Mahoney's charge of irregularities...