Word: republicanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order-of-business and lord high referee (unofficially) of parliamentary perplexities. A crisp-mustached Marylander, collaterally descended from President John Tyler and directly from Signer Carter Braxton of the Declaration of Independence, faithful Clerk Page is certain of his biennial re-elections so long as the House stays Republican...
William Robert ("Will") Wood of Lafayette, Ind., is a small-town-lawyer and professional politician, old-style. Aged 67, a bit withered, inclined to testiness and taciturnity, he has served his party as chairman of the committee that is charged with keeping Congress Republican. Now he will succeed the late, snow-polled Martin Barnaby Madden of Illinois as chairman of the potent Appropriations Committee (House end of the so-called Pork Barrel...
...neighbours saw he had "book learnin' " and sent him to the legislature, then Congress (in 1913). He wears square-cut clothes, stutters a little, reads studiously. As chairman of the Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee he supervises much intricate legislation and shares with Cheesemaker Snell in commanding the Republican half of New York's big delegation...
Still more hopeful, a new State's attorney was getting ready to enter office in Cook County, Judge John A. Swanson. Robert E. Crowe, the Republican incumbent beaten by Swanson in the primary last spring, is the political "pardner" of Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson. Crowe tried to "knife" Judge Swanson in last month's election and "throw" the office to the Democratic candidate. Many another Republican lost out but Judge Swanson prevailed and last week was preparing to rake out Crowe's politico-criminal mess. Instruments ready at hand were some able assistants of Special...
Undeniably the situation was awkward. Nearly every British newspaper and review had said, last month, what a shame it was that Mr. Houghton had resigned as Ambassador (TIME, Oct. 8) and sailed for New York, to stand for one of the Senatorial seats from that state as a Republican. When the Republican candidate was elected President of the U. S., casual Britons supposed that Mr. Houghton must have been elected too, and that they had seen the diplomatic last of him. But instead he was defeated, and so he was back in London last week as Ambassador...