Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vote. Senators Couzens and Ferris (Michigan) voted against confirmation, both testifying high personal regard for Mr. Warren, but saying they could not vote for him. (Mr. Warren is not popular with the Republican organization in his native Michigan.) Senator after Senator voted. The Progressive and Insurgent Republicans, without exception, voted against confirmation. So did Hiram Johnson, administration opponent. So did all the Democrats except one, Lee S. Overman of North Carolina, who expressed the opinion that the President should be given the opportunity of choosing his own official family. The vote was obviously close. Republican leaders became uneasy...
...vote of 64 to 11. after a five-hour debate, confirmed Committee assignments made by caucuses of the major parties. By this act the Republican Insurgents LaFollette, Brookhart, Ladd and Frazier were deprived of all rank in committees, and obtained only such extra places as had been created here and there for their accommodation...
...were obtained, the test compares very favorably with one of a similar nature which was recently given at Boston University. The word "demagogue" was there defined as "an inevitable circumstance", "a form of government controlled by evil circumstance," "a god worshipped by African tribes," and "the nickname of the Republican party." The population of France was cautiously estimated by some to be about 18,000 while other more generous individuals put the figure at 1,000,000,000 people...
...have learned to like, even more than I did before, those who have been in sympathy with me and those with whom I have had occasional quarrels, including those gentlemen whom I hope are only temporarily absent from the Republican Party...
...deep roll of muffled drums, the coffin bearing the body of President Friedrich Ebert of Germany (TIME, Mar. 9) was carried down the steps of the Presidential Palace in Wilhelmstrasse, placed in the waiting hearse, covered with the black, red and gold flag of republican Germany...