Word: republicanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Americans may be inclined to smile at the ways of polities in Mexico, where public opinion shifts with every duel. But here in politically-wise New England Massachusetts has supplied the nation with a Republican President; nevertheless in his party's year of triumph she votes for Al Smith and reelects Senator Walsh by a huge majority. She has close fights for the governorship, but in the legislature one party has an overwhelming majority. Today there is more of a fight between the Republican Mayor and the Republican Governor than between the two opposing parties in the election. Who will...
...arguments of a post-election whispering campaign have at length become so loud that a mere "Hush!" from those called big-wigs is not enough to silence the speakers. Whatever that hard-gained Smith majority in the Bay State may have signified politically, it gave Governor Fuller, long the Republican Party's second prize publicity artist, a chance to step out to a sizeable lead over his once superior opponent, the vociferous Mr. Goodwin. Working on the sufficient assumption that an officer soon to be emeritus is safe from slings and arrows, the Governor has been chuckling pretty constantly...
...Davis of War and Jardine of Agriculture, who are also Power Commissioners. But if the decision goes against Senator-resigned du Pont, their presence will not greatly temper the Senate's disapproval of Mr. Insull and the Insull lawyer, Secretary West. Senator-resigned du Pont is, moreover, a Republican; so his Senator friends may feel free to transgress strict party allegiance in a vote on Secretary West...
Representative John Quillin Tilson of Connecticut, Republican floor leader, was invited to both. He chose the barn festival. Why? Because he, Yale '91, was to receive a cup at the hands of Yale men. Tradition said that he must be there in person. The cup was inscribed to a man who "has won his 'Y' in life...
President Coolidge, Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, Democratic firebrand, Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, Republican man-of-all-words, spoke in the same room in Washington, D. C., one night last week. Some 150 newsmen heard them. Yet not a word of what they said appeared in the public prints. It was the annual winter dinner of the Gridiron Club; at such a function the club beards itself with the phrase, "reporters are never present...