Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last session of Congress closed with a Republican filibuster which prevented the passage of the urgent deficiency bill, left the Government without sufficient funds for normal activities?let alone flood relief. Assuming that there are 500,000 refugees and that there is $10,000,000 (the Red Cross relief fund) to spend on them, money available for flood relief would be only $20 per victim. By calling a special session, the Government could get both the money for relief work and the authority to spend...
...pros, so the cons. Meanwhile Washington correspondent Mark Sullivan, writing for the Republican New York Herald Tribune, said: "It requires pretty thoroughgoing Republican partisanship to deny that Senator Reed of Missouri and the other Democratic Senators were justified in asking President Coolidge to call a special session...
Furthermore, 10,000,000 women voters, both Democrat and Republican, will rise to the opportunity of putting a woman in the White House...
Meanwhile the Republican Party is in a very bad way, inasmuch as there is, throughout the country, great opposition to a third term for President Coolidge...
...Henry Ward Beecher preached in 1877: "The nature of God is to suffer for others rather than to make them suffer." This sounded blasphemous at the time. He was as rampant in politics. President Hayes' administration he called "a bread pudding." A Republican from the earliest years of that party, he left it when in 1884 James G. Blaine ran for the Presidency against Grover Cleveland. He called himself a "Mugwump," a political purist. Pastor Beecher was full-blooded; dared not eat red meat. His only outdoor exercise was croquet. He died of aponlexy...