Word: thruston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, G.O.P. National Chairman Thruston Morton hailed Iowa's Fourth. "An indication that the Republican Party is on its way to a great victory in 1960," he crowed. The election was indeed a useful clue, but it was not quite a harbinger of another Republican springtime. It indicated that Farm-Belt Republicans can withstand attacks against Benson and win elections if they have good candidates and arm themselves with other positive issues. It proved that the nation's farmers are not yet mad enough over falling prices to swing, en bloc, to the Democrats. And it suggested that...
...Benson's Black Sunday he was in Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital, convalescing from a gall bladder operation and brooding about the campaign by high-level Republicans to dump him as a political liability. The day before, Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton had dropped a blackjack hint that Benson ought to "step down" for " the good of the party (TIME, Dec. 21). In G.O.P. inner councils there had even been discussion of the possibilities of persuading the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to call Mormon Apostle Benson back home to Salt Lake City...
Into this fratricidal warfare last week flew Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton to find himself cast in the role of peacemaker. After hearing both sides and collecting a pocketful of memos, Morton promised to report fully to Ike. Meanwhile, in Washington, Summerfield condemned the "intemperate and shameful maneuvering" of unnamed Michigan liberals...
...fails to resign, the Democratic National Committee ought to fire him at the first opportunity," raged Georgia's Herman Talmadge. "We are paying Butler $35,000 a year to try to destroy the Democratic Party while [G.O.P. Chairman] Thruston Morton would be glad to do it for free...
...people on Main Street are really concerned about spending.") In defense of his program, the President has learned to use the veto-and threats of veto-effectively. Strongly supported by Republicans in House and Senate, and also by the new chairman of the Republican National Committee, Kentucky's Thruston Morton, the President holds the initiative. Since the Gallup polls have shown the Republican Party in general to be slipping badly (TIME, June 8), the Democratic liberals want to build a record by challenging Ike; Rayburn and Johnson want to ride with...