Word: republicanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy, Manhattan Republican, financier (New York Transportation Co., Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.), and Pierre Samuel du Pont, Delaware Republican, industrialist (chairman of General Motors Co.). Reason: Prohibition...
William Hartman Woodin, Manhattan Republican, industrialist (American Car &. Foundry Co., American Locomotive Co., General Motors Corp.). Reason: personal friendship, admiration...
Henry Clay Hansbrough, oldtime North Dakota Republican (U. S. Senator 1891-1909), a "progressive regular" who turned Democrat and stumped for Wilson in 1916. Reason: agriculture. Mr. Hansbrough, So, long a resident of Washington, said that he and friends would organize a Smith Independent League in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Montana...
...Manhattan on his way to Europe, proposed to publish the Smith voting record the day he sailed. The New York Evening Post (Republican) anticipated him. It, too, had exhumed the record.. While awaiting Nominee Smith's reply to the subtlest, heaviest attack he had yet suffered in his greatest campaign, voters had an opportunity to scrutinize the subject-matter of the controversy. Sample items of Assemblyman Smith's record of votes (1903-15) are as follows: Liquor A vote (1904) to except hotels from the provisions of a local option bill. A vote (1905) to except...
...enjoined from barring out Negroes. The decisions made it clear that the Democrats had discovered the simplest method yet of disfranchising Negroes. Certificates from Democratic primaries in the South are virtually the same as election certificates, so ubiquitously preponderant is the party. Where any rising tide of black Republican votes may occur, white concern for the all-white ticket is calculated to insure the Democrats against the dangers of sloth, carelessness, disaffection among themselves. The new Texas method of disfranchising Negroes by simple race discrimination in the party membership supersedes early, cruder. methods. Texas used to bar Negroes from...