Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Farm relief legislation is dead. So are chances for Republican control of the next Congress," said Democratic Publicity Director G. Hunter Osborne. The first is true enough, and as for the second...
...Republican Senatorial candidate friendly to President Coolidge lost his race in the Illinois primary. The Republican Senatorial candidate friendly to President Coolidge lost his race in the Pennsylvania primary, and in the Iowa primary, the Oregon, the South Dakota. Last week he lost also in the North Dakota primary. Of all insurgent Republicans none is better pleased than 33-year-old Gerald P. Nye. It was he who beat the President's friend, the President's good friend and one-time campaign manager, Louis Benjamin Hanna, in North Dakota. Mr. Nye, who is already Senator Nye, having been...
...perceive the jest, killed his wife as she was dressing for dinner clad only in her chemise, killed himself. What editor or printer's devil in the U. S. does not know that? But what editor asked: "Who is Roscoe Platt Conkling? A descendant of 19th Century Manhattan Republican Boss Roscoe Conkling? A namesake of Roscoe's voter-bludgeoning henchman, Thomas C. Platt?" In a jazzed age no news hound delved through the reference "morgue" of his paper to turn up the great story of Conkling, Platt, Garfield and James G. Blaine. But for the tangled interplay...
...June drew near and with it the hour at which Speaker Nicholas Longworth, Republican ringmaster, had decreed that the 69th Congress should fasten its portfolio flaps and go home for the summer. But the 69th Congress showed no intention whatever of obeying Mr. Longworth...
...long been customary in Minnesota for the Anti-Saloon League to nominate all Republican and Farmer-Labor candidates for Congress. But in last week's Minnesota primaries, two small blots appeared upon this record. Dissatisfied with its servant of the past four terms, Representative Oscar E. Keller, the League advanced a new candidate in Keller's district (St. Paul). Keller ran on his record independently when out of the business district suddenly appeared a 28-year-old Wet bond salesman, one Melvin J. Maas, to confound them both. St. Paul voters gave Salesman Maas more votes than...