Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Animal of the Year: The Vicuna-for its significant role of informer on the Republican Administration...
Adams: Freshman Union Committee; Harvard Pre-Law Society; Class Student Council Representative; Combined Charities Drive, Chairman. Harvard Young Republican Club; Harvard Catholic Club...
Winthrop: Harvard U.N. Council, Vice President; Islamic Society, Secretary; P. B. H. Speakers; Harvard Young Republican Club; International Students Association...
...governor for 13 years after his appointment by Franklin Roosevelt. Gruening had heavy labor support, campaigned tirelessly, spoke clearly on all questions, personally claimed credit for statehood, the DEW line and the fight against tuberculosis among Alaska's natives. It took all that to beat out young (39) Republican Mike Stepovich, who quit the territorial governorship to run. Stepovich, father of eight children and last-appointed Alaska governor proved to be only a so-so campaigner, got lost in the political infighting, lost the election by a slender 2,500 votes...
...Buzzing gadflies in this calm atmosphere, the Cowles papers go far beyond filling their front pages with stories on international affairs from their hardworking five-man Washington bureau headed by Dick Wilson, 53. Their editorial pages take positions that are unusual for the Midwest and downright surprising for Republican publishers: they have damned the policies of Dwight Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles, praised Dean Acheson, bemoaned Chiang Kai-shek (a "lonely, repudiated man"), and called for the recognition of Communist China by both...