Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the country would go through the winter without a serious coal shortage and that New England would learn to use cheaper substitutes for hard coal; J. Hamilton Lewis, former "dude" Senator from Illinois, who found the President not at home, and told reporters that the fight for the Republican nomination in 1928 would be between Messrs. Hoover and Dawes; Senator Borah, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who called by invitation to discuss the funding of the Italian Debt (see CABINET) ; Commander John R. Mc-Quigg of the American Legion to tell the President what legislation the Legion...
...years Mrs. Ruth Pratt has been associate Republican leader of her District, the 15th. It is normally Republican. She ran against James A. O'Gorman Jr., son of the late Senator from New York. They did not sling any mud at each other. The Republican slogan was "Put Our Ruth Over." She lived in her house on 61st Street, just off Fifth Avenue, but she went all the way over to the little shops on Third Avenue canvassing for votes. Her son came down from Harvard to cast his first vote...
Governorships. In New Jersey a Dry Republican, State Senator Arthur Whitney, was defeated by A. Harry Moore, a Wet and a Democrat. Score 470,000 to 430,000. None the less the Republicans won 47 of the 59 seats in the State Assembly, 18 of the 21 seats in the Senate, and elected a Congressman to a vacancy...
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN...
...York City State Senator James J. Walker, Democrat, defeated Republican Frank D. Waterman (fountain pens) 748,000 to 346,000, with a Socialist candidate trailing with 39,000. Incidentally the Tammany boss, Olvany, and the Republican boss, Koenig, both saw their home districts go to the opposite party. Democrats patted Governor Al Smith on the back and gave him credit for the Democratic victory in the city...