Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ruth Hanna McCormick, daughter of the late Mark A. Hanna (Republican Senator from Ohio) and widow of Medill McCormick (Republican Senator from Illinois), announced that she would support Senator William B. McKinley of Illinois, who is seeking re-election in his state. Senator McCormick was a confirmed isolationist. Senator McKinley voted for the World Court. Senator Borah and other isolationists recently made speeches in Chicago against the World Court. Evidently Mrs. McCormick did not approve this attack on Mr. McKinley in his home territory...
...were opened throughout Germany last week for a preliminary referendum to determine whether a subsequent referendum shall be held on the question of whether property belonging to the former German nobility and seized by the Republic may be retained without compensation to the original owners. According to the German Republican Constitution, a preliminary poll of four million votes must be obtained before the ultimate referendum can be held. To be successful, the final vote must total 20 millions, which is considered virtually an impossibility, since the population of the country is but 63 millions, and the Left political parties (which...
Died. William Wallace Crapo, 95, "oldest ex-Congressman," "first citizen of New Bedford (Mass.)," famed lawyer, banker, industrialist; at New London. In 1876 the U. S. was brought almost to the verge of civil war by the dispute as to whether Samuel J. Tilden (Democrat) or Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) had secured sufficient votes to elect him to the presidency. The House and Senate chose a Commission of seven Democrats and eight Republicans to adjudicate this matter. By a majority of one the commission gave the election to Hayes. Mr. Crapo was a Republican member of this Commission. Thus...
That the Prince of Wales will suffer eclipse is fairly incredible. Yet surely he will have to return soon to keep his laurels in press. For America, being thoroughly republican,, occasionally likes "the boast of heraldry, the pomp of power." Yet even greater significance attaches to this voyage of crowned heads than any transitory adumbration of the British heir. Cruising crowns are more than a novelty in the western hemisphere--they are a threat. For the whole union will have no better king than Alphonoso and America rather scruples at foreign superiority--even in crowns. The immigration officials must...
...number of her activities. Like her elder brother, Theodore, she has led a strenuous life, even to the present time when she is 64. In 1912 she worked for her brother and the Progressive party, in 1916 for Hughes, and in 1920 after supporting General Wood for the Republican nomination, she campaigned for Senator Harding, advocating nationalism instead of internationalism, economy instead of extravagance. Her interests range from poetry to politics. Her pen has been active as well as her tongue, produced in 1912 The Call of Brotherhood, in 1914 One Woman to Another, in 1919 Service and Sacrifice...