Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democrat John C. Shershow '61, countered the Republican statements with statistics. Eighty per cent of the families in the United States, he said, earn only one half of the total income...
...rebuttal, kicked off by Republican Olsson, began with, "Our worthy opponents have produced a symphony of Arabic numerals, which may have had a sleep-producing effect...
...only the lower income taxes were cut," declared Peter M. Smith '61, Republican, "the graduated tax would be aggravated almost to socialism...
...speculate about. But the most peculiar thing about the Democrats--whether you think there are thirteen, seventeen, or twenty of them in the running--is that almost all of them are senators. The Democrats have never in this century picked a senator as their presidential nominee; the only Republican candidate who was a senator was also a winner, but his name was Warren G. Harding...
Bryan was a former congressman, Wilson a governor, Cox a governor, John W. Davis a corporation lawyer, Smith and Roosevelt, both New York governors, Truman a Vice-President (Lots of vice-presidential material comes from the Senate.), and Stevenson a governor. The Republican nominees are similarly heavily pro-gubernatorial, from McKinley through Dewey...