Word: republicanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stumping through his own part of the continent-Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico-Nominee Robinson last week assaulted Intolerance, leading issue in that section. He flayed "a lot of women with short skirts and long necks" for the Whispering Campaign. He cried: "Neither the Republican nor the Demo cratic platform declares in favor of Prohibition." He said: "Senator Curtis and I are dry - nobody knows how dry we are!" Also, he mixed with Editor William Allen White of the Emporia, Kan., Gazette, in an argument of the kind that is thoroughly enjoyed in a country of long adjectives...
...Republican shambles, he is vaguely reminiscent of a plump and timorous capon, fluttering anxiously on the outskirts of a free-for-all cockfight" (TIME...
...manned by a rude, desperate soldiery, taxicabs are to be seen, making indirect money for their inventor, John Hertz. With this money John Hertz, propelled by the gracious irony which controls the careers of capitalists, buys himself horses. Some of the horses he gives to his wife, a lady Republican of note; he keeps them in his Leona Stables, at Gary...
...also said that big business demands and gets, because of contributions to the Republican campaign fund, almost any tariff rate it wants. You charged that giving to the steel men, to use your example, a tariff of 25 per cent was robbery, but you added that you were ready to give 10 per cent., 15 per cent., 20 per cent., 22 per cent., 23 per cent., or even as high as 24 per cent. Economists are agreed that all protection, except to "infant" industries, means robbery and that the high American standard of wages is not due to tariff...
...Tuesday the Harvard Republican Club will run a public mass meeting at the Harvard Union. Congressman Beede will speak, as well as a number of other prominent men in the political world...