Word: republican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Relative to your excellent article on Mrs. Roosevelt (TIME, April 17), can you tell me why the Boston Traveler (owned by the arch-Republican Boston Herald) published her column "My Day" only a few days three years ago and then discontinued it? No other Boston paper publishes it at the present time...
Prominent in the Republican Party for many years, the journalist began his career on the Kansas City "Star" in 1891. In 1895 he bought the Emporia "Gazette," which he developed into one of the leading papers of the West...
...next day resigned from his $12,000-a-year job at CAA to take a $1-a-year job as executive assistant to the Secretary. With Ed Noble in mind, Franklin Roosevelt simultaneously asked Congress to create a new title: Under-Secretary of Commerce. Explained Harry Hopkins, greeting his Republican No. 2 man: "To Mr. Noble, public service transcends political partisanship...
...There were also speeches-off the record. Franklin Roosevelt as usual was the star guest, the virtuoso of ribbery. Ohio's Senator Robert Alphonso Taft was presented (in person) as a Republican foil to the President. Bob Taft proceeded to make on-the-record news by making a sensationally poor speech. When he had finished, New York's Tom Dewey applauded, grinned. He shared his friends' certainty that, if speechmaking has much to do with it, Bob Taft will not be hard for him to beat for the Republican Presidential nomination...
...powwows than for any great forcefulness. To his parents he was a problem child; in his Party he had the reputation of a hellraiser. In the famed-and abortive-beer-hall Putsch of 1923 he marched along with the boys (as the Party's flag-bearer), but the Republican police considered him so unimportant that they did not bother to arrest him. While Hitler was serving time in Landsberg Prison and Göring was recovering from his wounds in Sweden, the youthful Heinrich was a student of experimental agriculture at the University of Munich...