Word: granting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...victory this Fall because honesty will be the big issue, and the Republican Party certainly cannot boast of that "The Republican Party has never fulfilled its promises to the Negroes, who have been their faithful allies since 1872 . . . "The so-called grand old party is not the party of Grant, Sumner, Chandler and men of that class, but is today composed largely of the representatives of special privilege, and, so far as the Negro is concerned, composed of such lily whites as Bascom Slemp, the Sec- retary and mouthpiece of the President...
...Robert Lansing, wife of Woodrow Wilson's former Secretary of State, spoke on "International Relations" ; Miss Alice Louise McDnffee spoke on Americanization; Mrs. L. Grant Baldwin spoke on "Better Films...
Newton D. Baker: "To grant Muscle Shoals to any individual or company for 100 years, or even 50 years, grants to such company or individual the industrial dominance for that period of the whole Southeastern portion of our country...
Republican Presidents Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Arthur, McKinley, Taft, Harding, Coolidge, were mixed up in a paragraph by Franklin D. Roosevelt and despatched to Manhattan to be read at the annual Jefferson Day dinner of the National Democratic Club. Wrote Mr. Roosevelt...
...renew your attention to an interesting historical fact which deserves consideration by the American people? During the period since the Civil War the administration of President Johnson was marked by impeachment proceedings against the President himself; the administration of President Grant was marred by grave scandals reaching into the Cabinet itself; the administration of Rutherford B. Hayes and Chester A. Arthur were filled with such serious patronage scandals that civil service reform was forced through by an indignant country; the administration of President McKinley saw the graft and rottenness of the War Department and other bureaus during and following...