Word: republicanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Victory without opposition is a hollow thing. But an excess of popular support where little support was necessary is not hollow. That is why Hooverites rejoiced last week when the Republican Party's busy Beaver man, unopposed in the California primary, obtained his home State's 29 delegates by virtue of some 600,000 votes. Though many a Republican cast his vote in the Democratic primary for strategic purposes, Candidate Hoover's total was larger than the combined totals of competing Republicans in California's last two presidential primaries. That Candidate Hoover is the Favorite...
...Four names were heard above the rest as the Democrats wondered whom to invite as Number Two Man of their party next November. Assuming a solidly Democratic South, leaving Candidate Smith to win for himself in the wet East, and regardless of who is the Republican nominee, there are two basic factors to consider in choosing Candidate Smith's ticket-mate...
Fraternity-pinned chests subsided, however, when Editor Cleveland was carried by his exultation to make the following statement: "There is not much doubt about it. The next President of the United States, if a Republican, will be a fraternity man unless Herbert Hoover is elected." To this prophecy, lame enough in its omission of the two leading candidates for the Presidency (Democrat Smith and Republican Hoover), Editor Cleveland added the following: "Herbert Hoover is non-fraternity and anti-fraternity. Hoover worked his way through Stanford by waiting on table at the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house. There...
Then, as a protest against removing the protective tariff on sugar, he bolted his party and turned Republican. His political ideas had changed with the times, with Louisiana's necessities...
...became world figures and the Tribune Tower was built (Col. McCormick chose the site and Capt. Patterson suggested the $100,000 contest for an architectural design). This April, the Tribune won another great victory when it led the attack that smashed the Thompson-Small-Crowe-Smith machine in the Republican primaries (TIME, April 23). To the victor belong the boasts; and boast the Tribune...