Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...muskellunge which one W. R. Ross had caught at nearby Teal Lake, Wis. The President asked Fisherman Ross how he had caught it. Fisherman Ross gladly explained and asked the President to come catch its grandfather. "Thank you," said the President. During the Democratic Convention, the Republican President did not go near his radio. Instead, he fished, took canoeing lessons, went to bed early...
Chief Bacon Rind of the Osage tribe arose and intoned, nasally, the saga of "Cousin Charley" Curtis, Republican nominee for Vice President...
...Hubert Work, new chairman of the Republican National Committee, said he would issue no important campaign statement last week. His stated reason: "Courtesy to the Democrats." Dr. Work was much occupied with finishing off his duties as Secretary of the Interior, preparatory to resigning. Dr. Work did, nevertheless, make some statements. He said: "We need only about two months. . . . Our campaign will be a real pep rally!" He said: "I never heard of a President of the United States making campaign speeches." He said the total cost of Hooverizing the U. S. electorate would be kept below the sums spent...
Died. Holbrook Blinn, 56, famed actor (Salvation Nell, The Bad Man, The Play's The Thing), son of Nellie Holbrook, actress and Republican campaign stump speaker; of blood poisoning; at Croton-on-Hudson...
Died. U. S. Junior Senator Frank Gooding of Idaho, 68, onetime (1905-07) Republican Governor of Idaho, hardy antagonist in 1907 of the late "Big Bill" Haywood, whose supporters daily threatened the Governor's life, recently an active member of the Senate committee investigating coal strike conditions; of cancer; in Gooding, Idaho...