Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from 17 universities), Litt. D., Jur. D., D. C. L., Commandeur de la Legion d'Honneur, Grand Officer of the same, Grand Officer of the Royal Order of the Redeemer (1st Class), Commander of Order of the Red Eagle, etc., etc., etc., President of Columbia University, Republican protagonist of Wets...
...Valera last week launched a new and as yet unnamed Irish party at Dublin. Said he to former Sinn Feiners who have "bolted" with him: "Let our keynote be abolition of the Oath of Fealty.** The ideal of the majority of the Irish people is still broadly a Republican ideal. . . . Ireland should be united, free and Irish. . . . The people can be banded together for the pursuit of that ideal if a reasonable program, based on existing conditions, is set before them...
...that the Senate has completed in peace most of its business, Senator Curtis, Republican floor leader, has suggested that a compromise rule be adopted whereby a majority vote would close debate on appropriation bills. These are usually non-partisan bills. They rarely provoke debate (except occasionally, to delay subsequent bills). For the rest of the session, there is scarcely any unfinished business except appropriation bills...
Pinchot v. Pepper v. Vare for the Republican nomination for Senator from Pennsylvania heads the list of spring political battles. Pinchot has the most ideas - some of them considered a little loose. Pepper has the most dignity - now and again a little heavy. Both Pinchot and Pepper are considered much more respectable than Vare, but Boss Vare is credited with knowing most about how votes are got into ballot boxes. Pinchot is conceded to be the hardest fighter. Last week he let out as follows: "I charge that perjury and forgery are now added to ballot-box stuffing, falsification...
...occupation, he tried music, piano-tuning, chair-caning, but resolved finally upon lecturing and poetry. Recognition was slow. He once received $1.65 for a talk delivered to 13 people. His poem, "How Massa Linkum Came," later a popular favorite, was refused by 17 editors before the Springfield Republican accepted...