Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robert Littell in the New Republic recalls his early days as a teacher under Dr. Eliot, speaks of the warmth that lay under his austere interior, and of the calm and passionless force with which he gave rebuke or praise. Edwin Mead writes in the Springfield Republican of the courageous Eliot, the man who did not fear to speak his mind, even if he went unheeded in the face of a national blindness. John Jay Chapman writes down frankly his criticisms, speaks of the things he does not like, and cites himself as an example of the kindness...
...Foreign Relations Committee and straightway issued his ultimatum to the Senate: "You may think that because you have been good enough to give me this committee appointment, which I am proud to have, I will let up on being hostile and disagreeable and mean and nasty to the Republican and Democratic parties. I will not. I am a Farmer-Laborite and I am against both the old parties, and I want it understood that...
...Norris went through teaching and the law to Congress. In 1910 his fame burst like a Nebraskan sunflower when he led the fight in the House that overthrew the dictatorship of Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon (TIME, Nov. 22). Since 1913 he has been in the Senate. He admits no Republican or Democratic or third party prejudices; no mind but his own controls his booming voice. This autumn he swung into Pennsylvania to herald the campaign of William Bauchop Wilson, Democrat; he is just as liable in the future to dart off to Florida to boom some progressive Republican. "Party ties...
Gerald P. Nye, 34, Senator from North Dakota, tightlipped, square-shouldered, lean newspaper editor, is the other insurgent youngster. Up from the prairies he sprang to defeat President Coolidge's good friend, Louis B. Hanna, in the Republican primaries last summer. Then last week he informed the President that he frowned upon the appointment of any of Mr. Hanna's friends to Federal jobs either in Washington or North Dakota. Forthwith, the President patched up a peace...
...majority of metropolitan newspapers, Democratic and Republican alike, denounced this decision in no mild accents. Perhaps the loudest of them was the Chicago Tribune...