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Word: republicanisms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nationalists, however, were angered. They recalled that Dr. von Prittwitz welcomed the advent of the German Republic in 1918 a trifle too enthusiastically and that even now, as a Democrat, he was a member of the November Ninth Club, a republican organization. Faced by a fait accompli, however, they drew in their horns and decided for the most part to "await events" before passing judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Ambassador | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...most irresistible earwig. Not for a second could any one doubt that this earwig had attached itself to sincere Senator Curtis. Furthermore, obscure though he may seem to the voting public, Senator Curtis is prehaps more familiar to and with all sections and factions of the Republican Party than any other man. For many a year-as Senate whip and Senate floorleader* he has been the Republican Party's attentive, indefatigable housekeeper. Many a widower, despairing of remarrying brilliantly, has married his housekeeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Curtis Boom | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...national flag consists of three broad horizontal stripes of orange, white & blue. In the white stripe, from left to right, are a small Union Jack, an Orange Free State flag, and a Transvaal Vierkleur flag, the latter two being republican emblems. The three flags occupy one-third of the white stripe or one-ninth of the whole flag and embody five colors: red, white, blue, orange, green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: South African Flag | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...population. A dozen emblems have been suggested- only to be fiercely denounced by one side or the other. The Dutch (Boers) would have none of the Union Jack, seeing in that emblem a sign of their defeat by the British; the English-speaking section would no more tolerate the republican flags, unless the Union Jack were an integral part of a new national flag, seeing in their presence a movement designed to set up a republic, thus seceding from the British Commonwealth of Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: South African Flag | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

Premier Hertzog, once a violent republican himself, counseled moderation to both parties and eventually succeeded in effecting a compromise acceptable to each side. Ever since the last Imperial Conference, which created George V King of the Union of South Africa, General Hertzog has held that the legitimate aspirations of the country and a free and independent unit in the Commonwealth had been met. But he was bitterly attacked by both sides in his stand on the flag issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: South African Flag | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

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