Word: republicanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Moses, Hooverizer of the East, was loudest in the Republican chorus of amazement. He said that Mr. Raskob was "chasing rainbows." He said: "My claim of Massachusetts for Hoover is emphatic and vociferous. . . . We laugh at the Raskob claim of Nebraska. . . . We have great expectations of Missouri. . . . I share Mr. Hoover's confidence that we shall carry New Mexico and Nevada...
Then he made a Farm Relief speech. He mentioned that, in 1921, the Republican Secretary of Agriculture (Henry Cantwell Wallace) recommended the first of the fiercely-disputed McNary-Haugen Bills and that President Coolidge vetoed the two McNary-Haugen Bills which Congress passed. He contended Herbert Hoover favored U. S. agricultural production for Home Demand, as opposed to World Demand. He said...
...Hearst was in Paris when the Eagle's questions reached him. President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, prominent Republican, had just flayed the G. O. P. for its Prohibition attitude (TIME, Aug. 27). Chairman Raskob of the Democratic National Committee had just asked Nominee Hoover please to be more explicit about his Prohibition attitude. Nominee Smith had just defined his Prohibition attitude by proposing a form of the so-called Canadian Plan (dispensation by States) for U. S. liquor control...
...hope, vote. One of Nominee Varney's managers quickly announced: "The position of the majority was that this election is not a bona fide contest over the prohibition question, but a fake contest between the modification program of Governor Smith, on one side, and continued nullification by the Republican Party, on the other side...
...Leach's advertising agent, placing advertisements for Glenwood Ranges, wrote as follows to the Boston Review: "It is Mr. Leach's understanding that in addition to this advertising you will publish in your news columns a story concerning his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant-Governor and also publish additional items each week until the primaries...