Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Michigan. Alfred Owen Crozier of the National Republican Club contributed his summer home, "Wildwood on the Old Indian Trail," near Harbor Springs. Inducements: 300 acres; a new log cabin of Norway pine. Mr. Crozier said the President had termed his offer "most alluring" but that no definite decision had been made...
...note his demise, Democratic editors and politicians cheered his death, danced on his grave. Said the New York Times: "President Coolidge ... did well to get rid of him." Said the New York World: "The deceased lived a short life but a merry one." Said Senator Norris of Nebraska, nominal Republican: "The Bolsheviks got him." Three months ago Senator Reed of Missouri had said: "Let us have done with this sham...
Long and prodding, the letter went on to discuss statutes and customs; to mention the failure of two Republicans (Grant and Roosevelt) who tried to alter custom; to refer to "your recent public rebuff to Herbert Hoover"* and the alleged embarrassment felt by other Republican presidential aspirants due to their chief's silence...
While the Forum letter went the way of all inappropriate literature at the White House, James Francis Burke of Pittsburgh, onetime Republican whip in the U. S. House of Representatives, wrote such reply as seemed necessary, saying, among other things: "[The American people] have been seeking and are entitled to at least a few months' relief now and then from meddlers, mischief makers and apostles of unrest who have become the bane of our modern American existence...
...breakfast at No. 15 Dupont Circle, President Coolidge, Senator McNary of Oregon (coauthor of the vetoed McNary-Haugen farm relief bill) and sundry powers of the Republican party shook hands all around. "We will pour balm on the farmers' wounds. Senator McNary will go scouting in the West and report to the President next summer with a compromise bill that will satisfy agriculture and not vex industry. Congress will pass the bill next winter," said last week's breakfasters in effect. Such strategy was predicted three weeks ago (TIME, April...