Word: republican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into feverish bush beating, suddenly aware that the season was all too short. The first crucial presidential primary-New Hampshire's on March 8-was barely 20 weeks away. The gavel would call the Democratic convention to order in Los Angeles in less than nine months, with the Republican convention in Chicago only two weeks behind. And soon after the hunter's moon of 1960 had waned to a sliver, the U.S. would elect a new President...
...Republican camp there was the briefest stillness as Vice President Richard Nixon left off campaigning for a short vacation in Palm Beach. It was shattered hours later in Albany when New York's Nelson Rockefeller announced plans for a November invasion of Nixon's own hunting preserve in California, with the implicit promise that the G.O.P., too, faced a real contest for its political blue ribbon...
After warmups this week in Atlantic City, Manhattan and Chicago, Rockefeller's giant step will take him to Los Angeles on Nov. 12 for a luncheon speech before the World Affairs Council. By no coincidence, he will arrive in Los Angeles as the Western States Republican Conference assembles, and he has left time on his schedule for friendly, probing chats. Next day he will head for San Francisco to address the Press and Union League Club, then on to Salem, Ore. on Nov. 14 for a speech at Willamette University. At trail's end will be Oregon...
Rockefeller-Hatfield ticket-eager to brief his hero on the same Oregon primary that in 1948 knocked hopeful Harold Stassen out of the Republican race and started Tom Dewey on the high road to the nomination...
United Front. In Philadelphia, the Republican Party proudly picked pretty Evelyn Schufrieder, 23. to be "Miss Philadelphia Republican," learned too late that she was a registered Democrat...