Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When President Coolidge "chose," he startled his secretary and his doorman. He startled Main Street, Rapid City, and Wall Street, Manhattan. It is not unthinkable that he even startled himself, but certainly he startled no one more than his political impresario, William Morgan Butler, Chairman of the National Republican Committee, who, just when the laconic lightning struck, was on a jotting jaunt in the Northwest, a tour of inspection to see what properties would be necessary for the Prosperities of 1928, starring Calvin Coolidge...
Perhaps for the first time in history the Republican Party, George Jean Nathan, and H. L. Mencken are in approximate agreement. For some years ago, when the latter announced their platform as nominees for President and Vice-President of the United States, in Smart Set, they advocated that all living members of the Roosevelt family be sent to Leavenworth. It would seem that the big-wigs of the Grand Old Party to a man would wish at least one were safely there now, for Trotsky preaching Bolshevism on the White House lawn could scarcely produce stronger consternation or disapprobation than...
...leader of Tammany, who had allowed "the Red Light District to crawl to the very steps of the State Capital." His charges were almost wholly unfounded, but that is to be expected in any political utterance of the kind. Its relative lack of truth was not what caused Republican leaders hastily to wipe their hands of the whole affair...
Attacking the character of Blasco Ibaņez, the Spanish Ambassador told how the novelist had started a Republican newspaper at Valencia; how it had proved a failure; how, to save himself from bankruptcy, he had turned the newspaper over to his employes without informing them of the true state of affairs; how, after the enterprise had been put on its feet, Blasco Ibaņez had disavowed his gift, reclaimed ownership...
...first fight was the Greb-Wilson bout for the middle-weight championship (1524). His prominence extended with World's Series baseball. His first great national, non-sporting events were the Demo-cratic and Republican Conventions of 1924; his most famed, the Lindbergh receptions this summer. At the Radio World Fair in 1925, he won a solid gold cup (in the form of a microphone) as most popular announcer in the U. S., receiving 189,470 votes out of 1,161,659. He receives a huge "fan" mail, including marriage proposals. He is married to Josephine Garrett, concert and church soprano...