Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge dined and conferred with William M. Butler, chairman of the Republican National Committee. Chairman Butler prepared for a tour of the ever-intriguing West...
...more Nebraskan, George Wiliam Norris, Republican, is, with the possible exception of Senator Borah of Idaho, the foremost liberal in the U. S. Senate. Nearly a quarter century ago, his state sent this farmer lawyer from the plains to the House of Representatives. He was and is homely, unimposing, with bristling hair over a broad brow and keen deep-set eyes; he had and has courage, industry and a ready tongue. First in the House (1903-13), later in the Senate (1913-31) he bitterly fought favoritism and oppression in all its varied forms. Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Democrat, his fellow...
...most nauseating political campaign in the city's history. Nearly 1,000,000 voters swarmed about the polls. Police squads in cars, armed with rifles and machine guns patrolled the streets; state militia stood ready to answer riot calls. It seemed probable that onetime Mayor William Hale Thompson, Republican, would again be elected Mayor; but followers of William E. Dever, Democrat, present mayor, were full of hope. Dr. John Dill Robertson, Independent, also...
...that Samuel J. Tilden was rightfully President from 1877 to 1881. In the election of 1876, Tilden received 184 undisputed votes in the electoral college, Rutherford B. Hayes, 165. The 20 disputed votes, of which Democrat Tilden needed only one to win were all awarded to Hayes by a Republican-dominated commission...
George Barr Baker, Manhattan Republican, onetime newspaper man, talked to newsgatherers last week, but not for publication. The newsmen went away and wrote that President Calles of Mexico showed Mr. Baker last January copies of documents apparently signed by U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg, directed to the U. S. Ambassador at Mexico City, and of such purport that President Calles had made up his mind the U. S. intended war. Mr. Baker, so newsmen wrote, was instrumental in proving these communications forgeries-by whom forged, no one seemed to know-thus averting a crisis with Mexico...