Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Early returns of a nation-wide college poll indicate that Herbert Hoover of California and Alfred E. Smith of New York are the choices of American students for Republican and Democratic presidential nominations...
...superiority of Smith and Hoover was clearly demonstrated in a representative poll in the University of Kansas. Smith led Walsh by 146 to 38, while Hoover took all but 14 of the 186 Republican votes...
...wasn't sure, the year that Harding was nominated, whether he was a Democrat or a Republican. Neither were the Republicans...
...reduction. New York has a State income tax. Smith spent the entire legislative session of 1925 fighting for a twenty-five per cent reduction. He won it from a Republican majority which opposed it for no very clear reason except that Smith was for it. No further reduction has been possible since 1925. The expenditures of the State of New York have been rising, whereas those of the nation have been falling--more gradually, of late. As against this fact it is fair to remember that a Republican majority has at all times been in command of the New York...
...Water power. \ Smith would break sharply with Mr. Coolidge, the Republican party, any conceivable nominee of the Republican party, and three fourths of his own docile party in Congress on this issue. Water power is one of Smith's major intersts and major issues. As safely as anything can be predicted of him as President, he would demand government operation of the power plants at Muscle Shoals and, if they are built, at Boulder...