Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second alteration, amounting to $33,000,000, was the work of Michigan Republicans led by James Campbell McLaughlin. The Ways & Means Committee had recommended reducing from 3% to 1½% the tax on factory sales of Michigan's chief product, automobiles. The Michiganders asked for entire repeal. Farmers'-Friends joined the Michiganders. Democrats swelled this opposition to a 245-to-151 final vote. These changes having been made, Chairman Green of the Ways & Means Committee conferred anxiously with his Republican colleagues at the majority-party floor desk. They asked to have the Revenue Act sent back...
Speaker. "... I had rather be Speaker of the House of Representatives than hold any other office in the gift of the American people." So said Nicholas Longworth, Ohio Republican, after being re-elected Speaker of the House, 225 to 187, over Finis J. Garrett, Tennessee Democrat...
...style dollar diplomat, who sported spinach and used tobacco as a diet, is in the museum; the 1927 ambassador goes in for cigarets, safety razors, safety first, and social eminence, and is visable to the naked eyes of only those wandering Americans bearing mandates from Republican magnates. For all others?the air, the landscape, the department of the exterior...
...Raising. A clause of the Deficiency Bill called for $5,635,000 to modernize the U. S. S. Oklahoma and Nevada but forbade using any of the money to increase the range of their guns. Up stood Fred Albert Britten, two-fisted Illinois Republican, member of the Naval Affairs Committee. He set forth that 13 of the 18 U. S. battleships cannot shoot as far as can 20 of Britain's ships, ten of Japan's; that to elevate the Oklahoma and Nevada guns to give them the same range as British and Japanese guns, would not contravene the spirit...
Died. Joseph B. ("Big Joe") Kealing, 68, Republican National Committeeman from Indiana since 1920; in Indianapolis: of myocarditis (disease of the heart muscle). He was taken ill while in Washington where he went to attend a meeting of the Republican National Committee...