Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country, and especially its Republican politicians, spent the week recovering from what Pat McKenna, White House doorman since before Calvin Coolidge was even married, described as the greatest shock in all the 24 years of his official life. The shock had come gently to Mr. McKenna at that. Before he broke his rule of a quarter-century and stuck his head into the President's office to see what went on, he had been forewarned of some portentous happening by a sharp burst of ejaculations from within. Mr. Mc-Kenna's head entered the President's office just...
Governor Adam McMullen, Nebraska: "Governor Ritchie is a man of presidential timber." (Governor McMullen is a Republican; Governor Ritchie, a Democrat...
Ever since the Department of the Treasury, under Secretary Andrew W. Mellon, announced that the fiscal year of 1926-27 showed a federal surplus of some $635,000,000 (TIME, July 11), those high in the ranks of the Democratic and Republican parties have quarreled over the manner in which the melon should be cut. All agree that the record surplus will result in tax reduction, but differences arise over the amount of the tax cut and over the glory of presenting it to the U. S. nation. Considering the fact that a Republican Administration governs the country, it might...
Last week, for instance, Senator Byron Patton Harrison of Mississippi announced that taxes should be reduced by no less than $500,000,000. Democrat Harrison is a member of the Senate Finance Committee and so, in a position to make his views felt. Meanwhile Republican Senator Reed Smoot, Chairman of the Finance Committee, said that a reduction of more than $300,000,000 would be unsafe. Both Senators Harrison and Smoot agreed on one point-the desirability of calling a special session of Congress in October. Some weeks ago Senator Smoot visited President Coolidge (then in Washington) and announced that...
...attempts to escape serving his sentence for the murder of Madge Oberholtzer, began his disclosures of Ku Klux Klan rule in Indiana by holding a long conference with Prosecuting Attorney William H. Remy of Marion County, Ind. Then he released certain checks to Indianapolis papers-checks made out to Republican Indiana statesmen, politicians, including Governor Ed Jackson. Last fortnight the conference and check excitement had somewhat died down but last week Mr. Stephenson opened fire again and the Indiana situation experienced three new developments...