Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vowed the antiabortionists' chief advocate in the House, Illinois Republican Henry Hyde, a father of one daughter and three sons: "This issue is not going...
Because Hyde's measure was an amendment to a one-year appropriations bill, it expired on Oct. 1. When the House passed Hyde's ban again-as an amendment to the 1978 budgets for the departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare-Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke rallied the Senate in opposition. Said he: "This is a question of whether poor women should be denied their rights." To which Hyde replied: "It is the unborn children of the middle class and the rich who are discriminated against by this legislation because we have no way to limit their...
...England Yankee with a strong affection for Harvard, Holcombe took his Ph.D. in economics here in 1909. He marched at Commencement every year until two years ago. "He was a Republican, but also a progressive New England reformer," Beer said...
Charles Percy, Illinois Senator, ruminating on the ailments troubling the Grand Old Party: "We have to get the party out of the country clubs, out of a Caucasian atmosphere, away from the Anglo-Saxon approach. As long as the Republican Party takes a Neanderthal point of view, I don't see why it deserves...
...change that with one swipe of his five-inch claws. Land of the soaring, snow-capped mountain, Denali ("The High One" "The Mighty One") which a young Princeton graduate renamed in 1896 when, upon his return from an Alaskan prospecting adventure, he learned that William McKinley had won the Republican nomination for United States President. Alaska. Millions of untrammeled acres of rough, unpolite land, where a man can live in a kind of freedom inconceivable in the "lower...