Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Save for the President's pew and the diplomatic section, the Senate galleries were crowded long before 11 a. m. People sat on the floor in the aisles, breaking the rules. Word went about that Senator-designate and Senator-elect Frank L. Smith of Illinois was in the Republican cloakroom. Curious first row gallery-sitters craned their necks over the railing, hoping to see something, breaking another Senate rule. The hour of 11 approached. Senators sauntered to their desks, rustled papers. A gratuitous informer in the gallery pointed, whispered: "See that handsome man with the white hair; that...
...surprising," said members of Congress when they heard that President Coolidge had appointed one Mrs. Anna G. M. Tillinghast as Commissioner of Immigration at Boston. She had been opposing the reelection) of Frank W. Stearns' son-in-law to the chairmanship of the Massachusetts Republican Committee...
...Unless someone encourages the people and stimulates their interest they do not function in the way in which they ought to do," said President Coolidge as he added praise to the good work of Republican national and state committee women, who called at the White House...
...With such words, Governor Pinchot passed out of Pennsylvania politics last week. He will be succeeded on Jan. 18 by John S. Fisher, a Republican who is less of a thorn to the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia stalwarts. It will be remembered, however, that Mr. Pinchot has passed out before. Once a favorite of Theodore Roosevelt, he quarreled with President Taft in 1910 and was ousted from the important chairmanship of the U. S. Bureau of Forestry. Years later, in 1922, he arose like a ghost of a rebel past, surprised everyone by being elected Governor. His administration...
...wake up in the middle of the night, fearful lest something terrible may be happening at our army posts," confessed Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis before the Women's National Republican Club in Manhattan last week. This was not the first time that "disgraceful housing conditions" in U. S. Army camps have been mentioned within the last six months...