Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge usually does not attend meetings at which a Democrat is the principal speaker, his ears must last week have heard strange sounds and subversive doctrine. For, attending a farmers' meeting at Ardmore, S. Dak., the President listened while Democratic Governor Bulow of South Dakota assailed the Republican tariff. The Governor, tall, lean, ruddy complexioned, with a long, thin face and rather a dominating nose, maintained that farmers must be given fair treatment if "this country is to long survive." Governor Bulow felt that if the "discriminatory" tariff were not remedied, the farmer would have to be given...
Probably of at least equal mental stature with the other Commissioners* accompanying President Wilson, Mr. White was taken along partly with the idea of imparting a bipartisan color to the Delegation (on which he was the only Republican) and was in no position to exercise a dominating influence. After the Versailles Treaty was drawn up, Mr. White sought to arrange a compromise by which the Senate might ratify the document, but the disagreements between the Senate and the President became and remained so acute that no compromise was possible...
...having been a reporter on various Maine newspapers, he became one of the founders and managing editor of the Rockland (Me.) Daily Star. In 1894 he went to Hawaii as managing editor of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Honolulu. He served on the Territorial Board of Education and in the Republican Territorial Commission (1906-07). While Pacific Institute delegates met at Honolulu, Kilauea (largest active volcano in the world) erupted, flooded its eight-mile-around crater with molten lava. Visitors from Hilo (30 miles away) were driven back from the crater by dense sulphur fumes...
...Valera, who certainly comes under the head of an attacker of the present State, said: "The assassination of Kevin O'Higgins is murder and inexcusable from any standard. I am confident no Republican organization is responsible for it, or would give it countenance. It is the duty of every citizen to set his face sternly against anything of the kind. It is a crime that cuts to the root of all representative government, and no one who realizes what it means could do otherwise than condemn and deplore...
...guards of the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin resisted the entrance of a mob led by the Countess Markievicz. She opened her purse, drew out a pistol, shot the guard dead, and continued to lead a faction of the great Republican demonstration staged in Dublin throughout the notorious "Black Easter Week...