Word: republicanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter does not have to be decided until well along in February. By that time, perhaps the Republican Senators will remember, through renewed daily contact, the industry and ability of the tall, rugged, quiet Senator who sits just in front of Leader Curtis and is his Whip, Washington's Wesley L. Jones, expert on shipping and tending up to business. While a Moses smart-cracks and a Watson frowns or booms into space, while a Borah watches from on high and a Reed haggles and a Fess fusses, Senator Jones keeps his eyes upon and his nose...
Whoever the new Republican Senate leader may be, his task will be easier than Leader Curtis' has been. There will be 55 or 56 faces on his side of the aisle instead of only 48. On the other side there will be only 39 faces, unless Senators Norris and Elaine are asked to sit on the side they tried to help towards the Presidency...
...figure with whom the new Republican leader will not have to deal, because he was elected only to fill out a dead man's term ending March 4, is New Mexico's Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo. Born nearly 70 years ago in Chihuahua, Mexico, Senator-elect Larrazolo came to fame by the escalator system of teaching school, clerking in courts and a district attorneyship. He was Governor of New Mexico...
...evening after Virginia had gone Republican, students of the University of Virginia burned an effigy of "Religious Intolerance." They creped their campus statue of Thomas Jefferson and inscribed...
...statue of Andrew Jackson in the capitol grounds at Nashville, Tenn., was similarly treated. The Mississippi Legislature took under advisement a resolution to have the bodies of Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson removed from "Republican soil" (Virginia) to "Democratic soil" (Mississippi...