Word: republicanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Borah with his characteristic "set the world on fire" spirit has undertaken more than he can finish. His great campaign to redeem the fair name of the Republican Party has netted a mere twentieth of the sum necessary to repay Mr. Sinclair for his donation to the "Keep Cool with Coolidge" camgaign...
Superficially the repaying of the sum to Sinclair could do no lasting good. The money actually was not rightfully his in the first place. Then such a repayment would not effectively wash the stain from the Republican robe of state. Now, with the suggestion that Mr. Borah donate the sum already gathered to the needy miners of Pennsylvania, the original purpose of the scheme has come to naught. The secondary result which the "Nation" hints at still remains nevertheless. Mr. Borah, though the possibility of his ever attaining to the Presidency through such a stroke is most improbable...
...from the British Industrial and Steel Institute. Will H. Hays, famed deus ex machina of the U. S. cinema industry, took his waspy, wide-eared self aboard the Leviathan, last week, and sailed for France. He was not fleeing from further Senate questioning as to his onetime stewardships of Republican campaign funds (TIME, March 12 et seq.). He went to dicker with the newly created French State Board of Film Censors (TIME, Feb. 27) which has intimated that it will license U. S. films for sale in France only upon condition that the U. S. buy a proportionate number...
Will "Cities' Rights" supplant the old-time "States' Rights" doctrine as a major political and economic issue? Charles Edward Merriam, professor of political science at the University of Chicago, Republican candidate in 1911 for Mayor of Chicago, suggested the question by an address at the 150th convocation of the University of Chicago last week...
Died. William Cameron Sproul, 57, onetime (1919-23) Governor of Pennsylvania, Candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 1920 and long a leader in Republican politics; at Nether Providence Township near Chester, Pa. Successively farm boy, newspaper owner, manufacturer, politician, he was known as the "father of good roads in Pennsylvania." His favorite poem, "Crossing the Bar" by Tennyson, was recited at the funeral attended by leading Pennsylvanians...