Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heard that a Republican caucus had, by acclamation, renominated Nicholas Longworth as Speaker and John Q. Tilson as Floor Leader for the forthcoming 70th Congress...
...Charles Dewey Hilles of Manhattan, Vice Chairman of the Republican National Committee, set forth on a month's tour of the South, Middle West and Far West. He will endeavor to find out what other Republican bigwigs think of a third term for President Coolidge. He does not know, he says, whether the President intends to be a candidate...
...McFadden-Pepper bill is to enable national banks to compete more effectively with state banks. 2) That the Federal Reserve Banks' charter, which expires in 1934, be renewed for an "indeterminate" period. This is the rider. It puts the positive stamp of approval of a Republican administration on the greatest domestic achievement of the Wilson regime. To be sure, it would be possible for any Congress after 1934 to abolish the Federal Reserve system, but what Congress would dare and what President would permit the destruction of a well-tested stabilizer of banking? The Federal Reserve system, as many...
...against the East. The House, last week, threw aside its own farm relief bill, adopted the McNary-Haugen bill exactly as it came from the Senate. Thus, the delay of a conference was obliterated. The farm bloc, with grey-haired Representative Haugen at the helm, bowled over the regular Republican organization with steamroller tactics that recalled the days of "Uncle Joe" Cannon. The Cabinet. Having been informed that both houses of Congress had passed the McNary-Haugen bill, President Coolidge called for his Cabinet, found that it unanimously disapproved of the bill. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon had already made...
...reported last week from Rome to have excommunicated in the second or more serious degree** Leon Daudet (son of the famed author Alphonse Daudet) and Charles Maurras, both leading members of the French Royalist party. The excommunicated had stigmatized in their Paris newspaper, L'Action Francaise, all Republican Catholics-asserting that true Catholics are Royalists. The Pope not only excommunicated M. Daudet and M. Maurras, last week, but despatched an official rebuke to the French Cardinals Lucon (Rheims), Charost (Rennes), and Billot for upholding L'Action Francaise in various letters written by them...