Word: repub
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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FIGURES OF THE PAST-Josiah Quincy-Little, Brown ($4). These chronicles well bear periodic repub-lication.-Their author was as alert in his late seventies as he had been in his youth when, graduated by Harvard at 19 (class of 1821), he entered the front ranks of military, political and private society in "our somewhat stiff and exclusive city," Boston. He became a mayor of that city, like his father before him and his grandson later, but writing in his age, he found more meat in his youthful journals than in the official acts of his public career. Sunday, Sept...
...Charge. A fortnight ago, warming up on his stump tour, Candidate LaFollette thrust an accusing finger at the moneybags of the Repub- lican Party. Cried he, in effect: "Huge slush fund ! Corruption ! A desperate attempt to buy the election...
...Ekern, Attorney General of Wisconsin, who was made General Director of LaFollette finances, said this was to be a "cash-and-carry . . . pay-as-you-go campaign." It was intimated that some $100,000 was already on hand. If so, this is almost twice as much as the Repub- licans had on hand a month ago. Governor J. A. O. Preus, Republican, of Minnesota, who has struggled with the Farmer-Labor Party at home, gave his opinion of the coming Campaign: "La Follette is going to surprise the natives this Fall by the large popular vote he will...
...carriage entered the courtyard of the Palace, the Garde Repub-licaine presented arms, bugles sounded, and as the carriage came to a stop, there was a scurry of gorgeously uniformed officials, a flash of red carpet, bows, salutes, handshakes...