Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Defeat came last week to Nellie Tayloe Ross, Democrat, Governor of Wyoming. She lost by only 1,000 votes, but she is a thorough gentlewoman with a Rhodes Scholar son, so forthwith she despatched a telegram to her conqueror, Frank E. Emerson, Republican. Said she: "My congratulations and hope for a successful administration." Florence Ellinwood Allen, Ohio State Supreme Court Judge will hold a higher state office than any other woman...
...South Dakota it was a bad day for the name of Gunderson. Governor Carl Gunderson, Republican, was defeated by William J. Bulow, able country lawyer, who is to be the first Democratic Governor in the history of South Dakota. Another Gunderson, C. J., Democrat, cousin of Republican Carl, was overwhelmed in the Senatorship battle by Senator Peter Norbeck, Republican...
...Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts, Republican, art-col- lector, who accepts no pay from the state for his services, was re- elected. He ran more than 100,000 votes ahead of his defeated ticketmate, Senator Butler. Governor Fuller's opponent, William A. Gaston, potent lawyer-banker-businessman, has a wife who aids him. She wrote and, at her own expense, advertised the following letter on the day before election: "This is my last chance to do something for my husband in his campaign. . . I am proud of him. . . . It would take something far different from the Governorship...
...solid South" invaded the Republican stronghold in eastern Tennessee and captured Hardin County for the first time since the Civil War. All through the South the number of voters was small, averaging scarcely one-third of the usual electorate. Georgia and South Carolina, as is often the ease, had neither a state nor national Republican ticket...
...likewise, the hand of Dictator Mussolini in attacks by Fascists mobs, last week, upon the French consulates at Tripoli and Benghazi in Italian Tripolitania. Though the Italian Foreign Office "apologized," the impression lingered that Fascists are being roused to a fighting mood against France, represented as the fertile republican ground upon which plots are hatched against Fascism...