Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McMaster and he came bearing no gifts, singing none of the songs now so popular in the Black Hills about Cal and his gal being his pals. The Senator said that farmers were still determined on the passage of the McNary-Haugen bill or its equivalent; that the Republican tariff was not doing the western farmer any good; that it took more than one good year to alleviate farm distress. Most significant, he said that candidates for South Dakota's endorsement in the presidential primaries would be judged in the light of their position on the McNary-Haugen bill...
...They would continue so, too, for he was a lifer. He would be there, in the common phrase, "from now on." Surely an unworthy end for David Curtis Stephenson who through many years had controlled the Indiana Ku Klux Klan which had controlled the politics of Indiana. In the Republican State Convention of 1924 he had patrolled the aisles of the convention hall with a gun on his hip. The men whom he had picked for office held office; the men whom he had opposed had been defeated...
...rest of the country has undoubtedly been a growing sentiment. Said State Senator Scott McGehee of Arkansas last week: "This is not our river. It belongs to the Government and it is the solemn duty of the Government to make it safe. ... I see that Mr. Tilson, the Republican floor leader in the House of Representatives . . . put flood legislation as second in importance, tax reduction in his opinion, being first. If Mr. Tilson, who was born in this valley, would come down here and look at this desolation, these wrecked homes, and talk with these ruined farmers, I think...
Died. U. S. Congressman William Newell Vaile, 51, Republican from Colorado; near Denver...
...competent is Hiram Bingham to form a true mental picture in this way? He is Republican to the core; intensely and practically pious; rich because of the wealth of a small, frail wife who has borne him seven sons; and learned with the knowledge of an explorer in Peru and of a onetime (1909-24) professor at Yale University. He is human enough to set above his mantle framed letters from various "celebrities." Of recent years he has made a sound, tenacious success in politics. His voice, his jaw and his eyes are hard-not particularly pleasant. Therefore, it would...