Word: republicanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perversely realized all the confident predictions of its outcome, despite the fact that all its planks were ground up to make sawdust with which to stuff empty promises, despite the fact that all the favorite sons rejected favoritism and agreed with the Saturday Evening Post, the results of the Republican Convention produced as formidable a mixture as the Republican voters themselves could have hoped to have chosen. Selecting a candidate for the most "important position in the world" as the croaking orators repeatedly informed them, the delegates were sheep-like if sincere in their tumultuous acclamation of Hoover...
Before plump Mr. Hoover alone, a typical big business choice, the Houston Papists could at least evince an impudent sanguinity even if they did not feel it. But when he is backed by the bristing Senator Curtis and the latter's farm states lulled by pious Republican promises, the only Democratic hope lies in a decided stand for repealment of the Prohibition Act. And since the Democratic party does not even possess a Nicholas Murray Butler to table, this is equivalent to no hope...
...witness the substantial deficit remaining to Mr. Pyle after the completion of his cross country "bunion derby". In Nebraska another attempted parade has just fallen through. This time it is the calvacade of indignant farmers in autos that was expected to descend upon Kansas City and impress upon the Republican Convention gathered there a sense of their wrongs. The leaders started gallantly out in every town to "raise the countryside" but the farmers were too busy planning so the organizers had to make their own way to the convention without an escort...
...unjust political ruse and fiction. . . . Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow was an interesting White House caller. The President passed a whole day hearing about Mexico. He called in Secretary of State Kellogg to hear too. . . . Vice President Dawes was an entertaining White House caller. He accompanied 15 other Republican notables to a Coolidge breakfast and made great sport of small-eyed Senator Watson of Indiana for wearing a straw hat with his Prince Albert. When President Coolidge heard what the Vice President was tittering about he smiled and said: "Well, it's just about as proper to wear a straw...
Democrats sat back to see what decision the Republican 1,089 delegates, all of whom were now chosen, would come to among themselves. The votes of 545 would settle the matter, but with many a delegate unpledged, many another uncertain, many another unaccredited, the result could not be figured out to a mathematical certainty on paper. Last week's odds in Wall Street were...