Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, on what chanced to be the 150th legal anniversary of the U. S. A.,* the G. O. P. closed the bidding for its 1928 convention city. Ten cities had bid. Next fortnight the Republican National Committee will pick & choose...
Cleveland had the 1924 G. O. P. convention. Chicago had five in a row before that. Chicago has had nine Republican conventions since the G. O. Party nominated its second candidate (Abraham Lincoln) there in 1860. The National Republican executive secretary (Lawyer Roy Owen West) is a Chicagoan, and, despite all the talk, Illinois is not likely to be embarrassed by a favorite son. The dissonant quatrian...
which politican wiseacres have been dining at the public for weeks to describe the Republican problem, had dwindled to the first couplet except as political poetry. The candidacy of Vice President Charles Gates Dawes may contain a trace of realism, but the G. O. Politicians distrust Mr. Dawes. He is so quick on the trigger, and he backed the McNary-Haugen bill.* As for Frank Orren Lowden, his candidacy has been buried alive by recent developments in Illinois...
...echo of this refusal in Mr. Lowden's otherwise rather meaningless campaign statement this year. Concerning his 1928 candidacy he has said: "I know of no man in all our history who has run away from the Presidency," and "No man is too big to refuse. . . the Republican nomination for President...
...Republican Club of Harvard, opening its quatrennial season in preparation for the approaching presidential campaign, has just announced the election of officers for the current year...