Word: whig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comparing the G.O.P. to the Whig Party of the late 1840's, Clark said, "In 1848 the Whigs ran without a platform, with only General Zachary Taylor, a military hero. They won that election, but never won again." The Republican Party may well follow the pattern of dissolution that the Whigs experienced, he added...
...cops who overpowered the gunman had no trouble identifying him: he was a ballistics specialist on the force before being sacked last year. Dunbar was also, it seemed, a member of the Independent True Whig Party, which lost out to Tubman's True Whig Party in the elections last month. Police rounded up 28 opposition-party stalwarts and set out to find David Coleman, their national chairman. At Coleman's rubber farm 30 miles from Monrovia, the posse was greeted with a volley of machine-gun fire. Two of the expedition were killed, four others wounded. The cops...
...against Tubman on the Independent True Whig ticket was an ex-President of Liberia named Edwin Barclay. Last week police surrounded his marble house, but they did not lay a hand on him. After all, his cousin, Antoinette Padmore Tubman, is Liberia's First Lady...
Ralph I. Petersberger '55, Robert M. O'Neil '56, and Joseph E. Frank '56 successfully defended the affirmative of the same topic against Princeton's Whig-Cleosophic Society...
...King of the Wild Frontier's real story, according to Miller and Schlesinger, is different from the words of the ballad and the Times. Davy, it seems, was an ordinary soldier in Tennessee when the Whig Party, defeated by President Jackson, decided that it, too, needed "someone in a coonskin cap who was a man of the people...