Word: republican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fish, famed Republican neutrality supporter, is from President Roosevelt's own Dutchess County and Bernard, Farmer-Laborite from Minnesota, will enlarge on the collective security program...
...Ilion, N. Y. "I remember the last thing my wife said to me when I left her and my six-year-old kid in Los Angeles," mused Mr. Honeycombe. "She said: 'You'll regret the day you left for Spain.' She was right! The whole Republican line -those that were left of us-just cracked and ran. . . . This war cannot last much longer. . . . That man Franco has everything! The Spaniards don't want to fight . . . and those Americans that are left want to go home...
Democrat Kennedy then gave out a letter in which he had turned down an unnamed U. S. woman's application forwarded by Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. "For many years this Embassy has had the privilege of presenting between 20 and 30 American ladies each year, and the Court is still disposed to receive as many American ladies as in the past," wrote Ambassador Kennedy. "The number of American ladies presented, however, has on the average been twice as great as the number of ladies presented by all other diplomatic missions put together. . . . I cannot see that...
...British angle on all this was that Sir Sidney Clive, the astute Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps, had in masterly fashion secured both high U. S. Democratic and high U. S. Republican sponsorship for cutting out some 25 U. S. presentations. Sir Sidney is cutting out enormously greater numbers of presentations of British women, but that he can do without risk-whereas His Majesty's Government have been most wary of antagonizing any potent U. S. tycoons, wives & daughters...
...delegate might be elected by only 2,700 rustics. Custom and usage make it probable that a Frenchman will be elected a Senator only after he has spent years learning the political ropes, serving usually for some years as a Deputy. Although predominantly conservative the Senators are violently republican and have a strong tendency to be anti-clerical...