Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...particularly new arguments were created by Senator William Edgar Borah of Idaho, Dry Republican, and President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, Wet Republican, in their Boston debate last week, but what was said was said eloquently. Herewith some...
...United States. If the Constitution of the United States, as construed by the Supreme Court, be not the law, then there is no law. . . . "I agree with Dr. Butler that this is not a case which can be cured by the application of political soothing syrup, and certainly the Republican Party would not take a position in the next campaign upon the question of near-modification of the Volstead act. . . . "Then we come to the other proposal, which was hinted at. But Dr. Butler did not seem to touch it, and that is the repeal of the 18th Amendment...
...drew to its solemn close in Beaux Cathedral, France. Three young men waited in the square outside to sell newspapers to the faithful. All the newspapers were the same-an issue of Editor Leon Daudet's L' Action Française (royalist), for whose editorial attacks upon Republican Catholics the Pope lately placed the newspaper on the index expurgatorius (TIME, Jan. 24) and more lately excommunicated impenitent Editor Daudet and his colleague, Charles Maurras. . . . Out of the Cathedral came, not only the flock but their shepherd as well, the Bishop of Beaux in the awful splendor...
...enforcement, and not only that, will make the people believe in it. ... From the time he leaves Manhattan Island and crosses over into the United States, he'll be for the 18th Amendment." Earlier in the day before attentive students at Syracuse University, Senator Borah mildly dismissed Republican problems with the remark: "I think he [President Coolidge] is entitled to the nomination and can have it if he wants it. He would be a strong candidate. ... It is my personal belief that he will...
Irish Destiny is a film made in Ireland by Dr. I. J. Eppel. It records with bungling artistry but unmistakable sincerity the struggle between the Irish Republican Army and the British Black-and-Tans during the bitter squabbles of 1916-22. Most interesting are pictures of the escape of 200 prisoners from Curragh Prison Camp, the burning of the Dublin Customs House, street fighting in the city. In spite of paucity of entertainment, the film holds the attention of those whose feelings are swayed by political, racial considerations...