Word: republicanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Virginia presidential primary at the end of May. The likelihood of his accomplishing anything at Kansas City in June was about as remote as Mr. Davis's chance of winning the 1924 election now by a recount. Nevertheless, Guy Despard Goff will be West Virginia's Favorite Republican Son, just as Senator Watson is Indiana's and Senator Curtis is Kansas' and the late Senator Willis was Ohio...
...nature." The opposition which sprang up declared that such a measure would injure the U. S. consumer. New York's vociferous Black sought to belittle Candidate Hoover, to whose warnings against the British rubber monopoly, the measure was traceable. Up stood Connecticut's tall Tilson, the Republican leader. He called attention to Premier Baldwin's announcement, the day before in Parliament, that the British rubber monopoly would be terminated in November (see p. 15). Leader Tilson said: "I think the Secretary of Commerce is due the thanks and gratitude of the people of the entire country...
...unveiling of the Statue of Liberty, the opening of the Chicago World's Fair, the centennial of Washington's inauguration, his nomination of President Benjamin Harrison. An annual event was his report to the Union League Club, in Manhattan, on his summers in Europe. At the Republican National Convention in 1916, Senator Harding called on him unexpectedly during a lull in the proceedings. Aged 82, he extemporaneously spellbound the hall for 45 minutes. Four years later he repeated the feat...
...Republican Party owed thanks to Chauncey Depew from its inception. He stumped for its first candidate, John C. Fremont, in 1856, and attended every Republican convention from 1860 to 1920. All the Presidents from Lincoln to Harding knew him well. In 1888, he himself received 99 votes for the nomination, but withdrew in favor of Harrison, who later asked him to be Secretary of State. He declined, having the presidency of the New York Central R. R. to attend to. In 1899 he entered the Senate, but his two terms were chiefly sociable. Politics, with him, was a sideline. Business...
...made the more notable by a furious counterblast of criticism from the British press of Hongkong. There the South China Post, the China Mail and the Hongkong Telegraph all insinuated that Minister MacMurray had settled on "too lenient terms," in order that the U. S. Republican party might point to a diplomatic victory on the eve of a U. S. presidential election...