Word: republicanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chosen as F. N. G. C. organizer was William H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, the man who led the "Equalization Fee March" around the Republican National Convention hall last year in Kansas City. Ever an enthusiast, Organizer Settle said last week in Chicago: "This is the greatest day in the history of agriculture since I can remember. . . . This is what we have been dreaming for years?united action? and it's the first time it has been realized. . . . President Hoover is sincerely trying to carry out the pledge he made...
...Sometime in October" Walter Evans Edge will walk out of the Senate chamber for the last time, submit to Governor Larson his resignation as senior Republican Senator from New Jersey, sail grandly overseas to France, establish himself, his beauteous wife, his four chil dren, his entourage of valets, maids, nurses, cooks, butlers, chauffeurs, in the U. S. embassy at Paris. President Hoover last week sanctioned publication of news that Senator Edge will be the next Ambassador to France, succeeding Myron Timothy Herrick, deceased (TIME, April 8). Rich, social, commonsensical if not brilliant. Senator Edge worked long and late...
Sorely tried last week was many a Republican member of the Senate Finance Committee now secretly drafting the Tariff Bill. Each had been placed under strictest party orders to keep his mouth shut, to babble none of the Committee's confidential doings to newsmen clustered inquisitively at the closed door. Silence was such an ordeal that some Senators ducked and dodged away by back passages, while others took the press blockade...
Thus racing away, his lips uncomfortably sealed, Senator James Eli Watson, Republican Leader, was overtaken in the corridor by a newsgatherer who panted his question: "Say. Senator?is everything? in the bill?going up?" Leader Watson, unable to resist temptation longer, shot back as he hurried on: "No, not everything. Some things are coming down? but not many...
...That Republican Senator William Edgar Borah of Idaho should oppose the flexible provisions of the proposed Tariff Bill occasioned no great surprise in Washington. That he should express his opposition by a formal statement from Democratic National Committee headquarters, as he did last week, was surprising indeed. With a gleeful rattle a Democratic mimeograph ground out this Borah opinion: "There is no better illustration of the growth of bureaucracy than the story of the flexible tariff. . . . We are now delegating the full taxing power to the Executive...