Word: republicanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although I am a native of the district Senator Willis used to represent in Congress, I had never heard him speak until last fall when I was taken along-for-the-ride to a rally of Republican women at Columbus; and since that time I've felt like starting out on a crusade-a futile one, probably, for I must admit that the girls seemed to relish such examples of bawling calf oratory as (I quote impressionistically) : "that lovable, that noble, that fooo-oully maligned man, Warren G. Harding"; "the gloooorious wooomanhood of the State of Ahia"; etc., much...
Chairman William Morgan Butler of the Republican National Committee, to discuss some inscrutable political matter...
...although the next pronouncement of -vox populi, in North Dakota, was scheduled to be unanimously in favor of Candidate Lowden, still the first actual balloting in the 1928 election had gone Hoover. Voters talked about it in other States and told each other what they knew about the Republican party's man-of-all-work whose friends now think he should be, as they call him at the Department of Commerce, "the Chief...
...Republican corruption, farm relief, flood costs; these are only three outstanding topics on which he has remained silent or evasive, doubtless for highly intelligent reasons but with the effect, nevertheless, of making him seem an opportunist. And this effect is borne out by his shifting position on international relations. Once a sturdy Leaguer, he is now a hesitant World Court man, and suspected by newsgatherers of trimming his helm as the breeze may blow, off-shore or overseas. With all his other qualifications, he could well afford to speak out, in simple, declarative English on one or the other side...
Beneath, over, and around the thunders of Mexico and the silence of Beacon Hill plays the left-motif for the rivals Goodwin and Fuller. They have battled in the State House; they are opposed in business; they may be adversaries for the Republican nomination for governor. Beyond that--not so long ago was a Fuller-for-President boom. Perhaps the canny Mr. Goodwin expects some one to exhume it, and finds this a chance to get a little lead in international experience before the still imaginary time when the battle moves, in all its violence, to a convention hall...