Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile the Senate shoved its continued hostility toward the Cartel by defeating Senator Pasquet (a Cartellist sympathizer) when he was nominated for the post of Reporter to the Senate Finance Committee, and electing instead Senator Cheron, leader of the United Republican group. Senator Millies-Lacroix was elected President of the Commission to succeed his intimate friend, Finance Minister Doumer...
Representative Black of New York (Democrat) offered a bill excluding wearers of the D. S. O. and Congressional Medal of Honor from being tried by court martial. Representative LaGuardia of New York (Socialist, former Republican) introduced a bill limiting sentences upon such medal wearers to 30 days ?and made the measure retroactive so that Colonel Mitchell would be affected...
...occupies a peculiar place among the hoary Senators. He is an acknowledged authority on military affairs, a thorough Republican party man, says little, works hard, and is strangely respected by all factions, although still comparatively a young man (only 48). The combination of being a "regular" leader and yet aloof is unique. He is a farmer without a bloc, but that is because he is not a dirt farmer, but something more like a landed aristocrat. He has no political glad hand, no oratorical or political tricks. As Clinton W. Gilbert describes him: "When he speaks, he talks.common sense...
Died. Frederick Cocks Hicks, 53, Alien Property Custodian, Eastern Director of the Republican National Committee during the last election, four times Republican Congressman, Quaker, financier; at Washington, of instantaneous collapse while watching the famed magician Howard Thurston perform in a Washington theatre...
...Eireann, obstreperous lower House of the Irish Free State Parliament. The hours fled breathlessly because a certain bland clause in the Free State Constitution provides that every Irish M. P. must take an oath of allegiance to King George-which has caused Eamonn de Valera and 38 other elected Republican deputies to absent themselves from the Dáil in protest. Last week they were expected to appear at any moment. Rumor had it that they would force their way into the Dáil without taking the oath. News-mongers chuckled at the thought of filing lurid three-column...