Word: republicanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brighter would be the life of any President who did not have to thread a cautious way through the dark, dank forest of political patronage. Guiding him through the labyrinth of petty factions to worthy appointments is the high duty of the Chairman of the Republican National Committee...
...seven months President Hoover had sought an able U. S. District Attorney for Southern Florida. In that State are two Republican factions: one, now dominant, led by National Committeeman Glenn B. Skipper; the other, by George Bean. One after another six candidates recommended by the Skipper group were offered the President for this appointment, only to be weighed by the Department of Justice and found wanting...
...bull market on which the country has ridden in "Republican prosperity" the past eight years is a commonplace. The break of the past week has been a debacle. Whether the prosperity is to continue, or is to turn into a period of relative depression is hardly to be foretold, but the greatest stock crisis in history can hardly be designated as a technical readjustment. Whether the decline in what admittedly was an inflated market was touched off by the hammering of bear fools that finally tapped a layer of stop loss orders, whether the some what uncertain business conditions that...
...commenced to count shots (pages in the Congressional Record) fired so far. Triumphantly he announced that 666 rounds had been discharged (including canister, grape, minie-balls, buckshot and BB) from both sides of the lines. Of those, 509 had come from the Democratic and Insurgent opposition, whereas the valiant Republican troops, husbanding their ammunition, had fired only...
Generalissimo Smoot permitted his regular Republican troops to make a strategic retreat under this assault, rather than waste time attempting to hold the lowlands line. His purpose was to straighten out this bad bulge in his tariff line later with the aid of armored tanks and Republican robots from the House...