Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from 8:30 a. m. until late at night, President Coolidge scanned new measures, signed them, made, them law. As he toiled he waited for word from Capitol Hill where weary Senators carried a filibuster far into its second night. At last, impatient, he sent word to Senator Curtis, Republican floor-leader: It was imperative that the Deficiency Bill be passed before Congress adjourned. From the Senate no word, no more bills came for the Presidential signature. But 165 measures had been signed, many of them of wide importance. Among them were...
...69th session to a good-natured end. Everybody was happy. Senator Nicholas Longworth was made to blush. On the day before adjournment, a Democrat, Representative Edward W Pou of North Carolina, sounded the name of Nicholas Longworth, said: A great many of us feel that our old enemy, the Republican Party, might do itself proud if in time it shall put him [Mr Longworth] forth as a candidate for the greatest office in the gift the American people and the entire world. He has been tried in the political fire. He stands forth today without a mark against his fair...
Representative William S. Vare, slush-tainted Senator-elect from Pennsylvania, made his swan song and was roundly cheered by the Republican side...
...angelic choir." Last week Mr. Reed sought to extend his fame as an inquisitor, introduced in the Senate a resolution which would allow his committee to investigate all 1926 Senatorial elections during the recess of Congress (March to December). In the debate that followed, Senator Robinson of Indiana, Republican "yes" man, opened a vehement attack on Mr. Reed. "The Indiana investigation of Mr. Reed," said Mr. Robinson, "degenerated into a garbage wagon with the venerable Senator from Missouri in the front seat. . . . I recognize the publicity advantages that would come to the Senator from Missouri between now and the convention...
...Anti-Saloon League. His parents took him away to Iowa at the age of 3. From behind the plow and with a not unusual schooling, he entered a law office in Cedar Rapids. He ate up the law like so much beefsteak. Iowa, in that era an uplift-crusading Republican community, was no place for this pertinacious Democrat. At 26, he went to Kansas City, Mo. One of his first political jobs was county prosecutor. He secured 285 convictions out of 287 cases during his 15-month term-an astounding record. On such food the inquisitor of the Senate...