Word: republicanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...around him, the new faces, the new commanders. First of all they saw a bland, pink-and-gray Iowa lawyer who was saying very little and looking very cheerful. He was James W. Good, who has managed the Hoover campaign, who may well become the new chairman of the Republican National Committee and who, if he does, is well assured of a good cabinet post if he wants it. Newsmen call him "Sir James" for his fine manners...
Warm approval tempered by a certain amount of indifference characterized the reaction, last week, of European capitols to the Republican nomination of Herbert Hoover for President of the U. S. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...That the Republican Party chooses as its standard-bearer one who is not only not a politician but who has a professed contempt for a politician's calling, is proof of how completely the party accepts the dictum of President Coolidge that "the business of the United States is business...
These were the words with which Buffoon Will Rogers described the invocation of the deity at the sessions of the Republican Convention (see p. 9). Will Rogers spoke without reverence but he spoke the truth. Four divines - an Episcopalian, a Catholic, a Hebrew and a Methodist-had. prayed on four successive days with a great air of spontaneity but without lifting their eyes from the written page to God. Though extemporaneous outpourings could only reasonably have been expected from the Methodist, it was a pity, devout observers felt, that the appearance, at least, of immediate inspiration had not been affected...
...further thought, it seemed to observers that if it were necessary to truckle in this fashion to ignorant laymen, prayer might better be omitted at Republican Conventions. It would be Utopian to imagine that the hordes of greedy politicians gathered there would understand or even hear speeches addressed to their Father in heaven. Why then should reverend gentlemen of several sects hold up their faiths for a mockery by delegates who thought denomination was two words? Such a question was implicit in the further writings of that impious buffoon who criticized the preachers...