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Word: republicanisms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge had apparently convinced others of "those that know him" that only a now invisible emergency would make him contemplate candidacy. Secretary Andrew W. Mellon, for example, went on record as being quite convinced. Despatches from Pittsburgh said that W. L. Mellon, the Secretary's nephew and Republican State Chairman of Pennsylvania, had revealed a boom, with the Secretary at its centre, for Charles Evans Hughes, with whom Secretary Mellon lately crossed the Atlantic. Both the Messrs. Mellon quickly denied that there was any Mellonized boom for anyone at this juncture, but Secretary Mellon admitted that Mr. Hughes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Booms | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...lesser Republican, Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York, made so bold as to stage a formal Hughes rally in Manhattan, explaining that the one-time Secretary of State, onetime U. S. Supreme Court Justice and "best mind in the Republican Party" was the only man to pit against Democrat Alfred Emanuel Smith for the votes of Business and Labor. Celebrities were few at the Fish-Hughes rally, but Boomer Fish was not rebuked by the Party chiefs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Booms | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...Hoover. Neatly alliterated with Mr. Hughes's name in the Eastern Republican powwows, was the name of Herbert C. Hoover, for Vice President. But Mr. Hoover's name was alliterated with nothing but itself in the Republican talk elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Booms | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

Indicted last week with Governor Ed Jackson for his alleged chicanery, were Robert I. Marsh, his one-time law partner, and George V. Coffin, Republican boss of Marion County. David C. Stephenson is already in jail for life, as a murderer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Indiana Scandals | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...John Brown, after murdering five exponents of Negro slavery. shut himself up in a garrison at Osawatomie and was later taken prisoner, tried found guilty, executed, made the subject of a song. In 1859 at Osawatomie, famed Horace Greeley addressed the convention which was beginning to organize the Republican Party in Kansas. In 1910 at Osawatomie, Theodore Roosevelt, back from hunting wild animals in Africa, made a speech on "New Nationalism," which loudly thumped the doings of his former proteg; William Howard Taft, and led to the forming in 1912 of the Progressive or "Bull Moose" party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Speech in Osawatomie | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

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