Word: republican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ripon, Wis., a group composed of abolitionists and nationalists met to form the Republican Party, which, though it has elected 13 Presidents, is the only U. S. third party which ever elected even...
...Originator, organizer and chief speaker at the meeting was Wisconsin's bespectacled 41-year-old Governor Philip Fox La Follette, whose supporters last spring ousted from the University's presidency Mr. Glenn Frank, the man who is now engaged in preparing a new charter for the Republican Party. Governor La Follette's purpose was to launch a national political organization with the definite political objective of electing a bloc of Congressmen this fall, with the probable objective of electing himself President in 1940. His means were: 1) a two-hour speech broadcast all over...
...Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R.R. Nineteen years later he had risen to be a conductor, got into the Wisconsin Legislature with the support of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Next he acted as the Brotherhood's lobbyist in Madison, Wis. Then in 1930 he went to Congress as a Republican...
...Republican side of the picture is quieter, although Gifford Pinchot, without whose name no Pennsylvanian ballot would be complete, is opposing an organization candidate for the gubernatorial nomination. Senator James J. Davis, one of the tiny group of G. O. P. members left in the Senate, is conceded renomination...
...know that George Earle has been in the sugar business all his life. We who are his friends know that he plays the sugar market. What if he was caught in a jam and his brokers called for more margin? ... It is commendable that he ... had to borrow. . . . His Republican predecessors . . . would not have had to borrow...