Word: publicanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been featured in the Re publican and pseudo-Democratic press, in declaring my advocacy of the candidacy of Senators LaFollette and Wheeler, as being a bolter from the Democratic Party on account of the treatment accorded my brother at the recent convention in Madison Square Garden...
...rate the President pacified him. When Mr. Slemp emerged, he announced that he had not resigned, that he was going to Cincinnati to a relative who was ill, that when he came back he would be made a member of an "ad-visory committee of the National Re- publican Committee, which will have the real management of the campaign." As a matter of grammar, the last clause was interpreted as a modifier of "advisory committee"?a proposition which would have meant practically the deposing of Mr. Butler as head of the coming campaign. Next day the President took pains...
Although Scripture has it that small contributions given in the true spirit are more to be desired than all the ostentatious donations of the publican, members of the class of 1927 should realize that today is one occasion on which the Bible is not considered infallible. The University is broadminded and recognizes that different times make different customs; and besides, to be skeptical in matters of accepted belief is these days the height of originality...
...vote was 15 to 8, 14 Republicans and two Democrats voting for immediate consideration of tax reduction, six Democrats and one Re- publican insurgent (Frear of Wisconsin) voting "bonus first," and two members absent...
Consideration of the proposal in the Senate was moved not by a Re- publican, but by a Democrat, Senator King of Utah. The vote for and against immediate consideration was divided on practically the same lines as the vote on the League of Nations Covenant. Senator Lodge, Republican leader, merely declared against consideration. Senator Johnson, leader of the irreconcilables, led the insurgent group against the proposal itself. The vote of the Senate indicates chiefly that the Republicans want public opinion to crystallize before taking a definite stand...