Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great Smoky Mountain Conservation Association presented the President with a young wildcat, with assurances that it was captured in Sevier County, Tenn., "the strongest Republican county in the country in 1924," and that such wildcats domesticated are more friendly than house cats. The President sent the cat to the local...
...middle of the road." Twenty years in Washington, however, told on Mr. Volstead's hold on his constituents. Some of his old friends had died, others had moved away from Granite Falls. In 1920 along came Rev. O. J. Kvale (pronounced Quail) and contested with him for the Republican nomination. He told the electors that Volstead was an atheist. Kvale beat Volstead in the primaries...
With the major parties thus gradually converging, liberalism would be politically somnolent were it not for the stubborn resistance which the Western insurgents have offered to the Administration. By providing for a "Progressive Republican" on the commission the new tariff law has recognized this bloc as a distinct faction. In view of the Democratic schism which loomed so large in 1924, and is still quite possible, this rupture within the Republican ranks makes for an added . Should Eastern Democracy slough off the reactionary South it would then occupy a position very similar to Western progressivism...
...main obstacle to an alliance between these two groups is a geographic one. The West is agricultural and rural the East is industrial and urban. But the union of capitalists and farmers in the Republican party seems at least as contrary to sectional interest as a combination of agriculturists and laborers. Furthermore the recent housing bill sponsored by Governor Smith is not far different fom that type of government control advocated by the farm bloc. In the common opposition of both the Eastern and Western progressives to the great corporate interests now in power, there is the germ...
Under his administration the Tariff Commission obtained great influence and prestige chiefly because of its non-partisanship. With the advent of the Republican Administration, however the composition of the commission was altered to suit the high tariff requirements set forth in the Republican platforms of 1920 and 1924. It has lost not only its unbiased character, but, according to Professor Taussig, something of its efficiency as well...