Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bascom Slemp, Secretary to the President, on Mr. Coolidge's behalf, addressed letters to prominent Republican members of Congress, urging them to secure and expedite the pass age of a bill for reorganizing the Executive branch of the Government...
Served on the Republican National Committee...
...more than a month ago (TIME, Dec. 8), that the Republican Senatorial Caucus read out of its ranks four insurgents who had opposed the Republican National ticket in the campaign preceding the November election. The four-Senators LaFollette, Brookhart, Ladd, Frazier-accepted their exclusion with comparative silence. It was not a great deprivation. Another Senator, Mr. Borah, makes a practice of absenting himself from caucus meetings, although his action is purely voluntary...
...Republican Senators, 21 incontinently fled the state. They settled just across the border at Rutland, Mass. They remained there. The Bartlett House, where they were staying in the summer, found it worth while to put in steam heat to accommodate them when winter came on. One Senator died. Another, a former divine, became a lecturer at Worcester and is not expected ever to return. The others lived amicably in sun and shade at the expense of the Republican State Committee-an expense estimated at from...
Last week, the legal life of the old Senate expired. It adjourned in the presence of three members-two Democrats, and the one Republican who had remained behind to make the point of no quorum. Home came the wandering Odyssei, back to their Penelopes. But they formed a club "The Exiles" to recall for later days the joys of their exile...