Word: republicanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simple truth is that over my own protest I was urged by the Republican National Committee in two telegrams to make that speech. The week before it was delivered every word of it was carefully edited by James Francis Burke, a Catholic, and counsel of the committee. He did this at committee headquarters...
Last week Mr. Burke left his White House desk a while to ponder a reply to Mrs. Willebrandt's statement. She had transferred the odium of her Springfield address direct to him and his Republican National client. Careful not to contradict Mrs. Willebrandt in any major particular, Mr. Burke responded...
...Later Socialists in Congress, both from New York: Meyer London (1915–'19; 1921-23), Fiorella Henry La Guardia (1917-19; 1923- ). Mr. La Guardia, now Republican designee for Mayor of New York, was temporarily (1925-27) tagged a Socialist when endorsed by that party. He denounced the label as a "dirty Republican trick...
...Virginians will choose in November between a professor of constitutional law at William & Mary and a professor of psychology at Washington & Lee. Anything but academic will be the campaign because each of these schoolmen will personify a side of a question as large as the political South: Can the Republican party hold or extend locally the gains it made nationally last year when Democrats deserted their ticket...
Also, last week, it was suddenly discovered that Mrs. Alvin T. (Sally Aley) Hert, of Kentucky, vice chairman of the Republican National Committee, had submitted her resignation before the Inaugural. Mrs. Hert was Chairman Work's unsuccessful candidate for Secretary of the Interior...