Word: republicanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, Wet Republican Mayor of Chicago. Reason: "Harmony...
...Mary Harriman Rumsey, Republican daughter of the late E. H. Harriman. Reason: the Smith record as governor, Prohibition...
...Chairman Work of the Republican National Committee went a telegram from Representative William Walton Griest, aged "dean" of Pennsylvania Congressmen: "If possible bottle up tight William Allen White and all other hot air artists that may be hovering around national headquarters. Please try your utmost. They are a distinct liability...
...Reporting the incident, the Republican New York Herald Tribune was constrained to explain: "The lower end of Wall Street is not of quite the same character as the upper...
...Died. Captain William Rule, 89, oldest active editor in the U. S., founder (1885) and publisher of the Knoxville Journal; of appendicitis; in Knoxville, Tenn. Republican and veteran of the Union Army, he was nevertheless elected mayor of Knoxville in 1873 and, in 1898, caused Tennessee to enact an anti-duel law in defiance of the oldtime code of honor, became the man whose birthday Knoxville considered "next to Christmas" in importance...