Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Indiana's Watson, the Republican leader, tried to tell Senator Heflin that the Senate could not properly pass his resolution, the Alabaman, with bellowing surprise, asked if Watson wasn't the "finest old he-horse of the Klan." Senator Watson puffed and protested. Senator Borah rebuked Senator Heflin for bigotry, only to have the Democratic leader, Robinson of Arkansas, who has more than once rebuked Senator Heflin similarly, retort: "The Senator [Borah] can now speak of religious liberty, but you never heard him make such an eloquent appeal during the campaign. Then he was as dumb as an oyster...
Deserters. First to square off at the President's farm program was florid, blinking Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa. A vociferous champion of radical farm measures, Senator Brookhart had pleaded the Hoover cause in 200 stump speeches last autumn. He had shouted to rural audiences that the Republican candidate was "progressive" on farm legislation. "Progressive" in those days meant much more than it does...
...Curry leadership pointed positively to Mayor Walker's renomination. At the same time it indicated a mayoral opening for some Manhattan Republican of real stature. The potent, arch-Democrat New York World, carefully styling itself "the independent press," promised to abandon Tammany unless the Republicans, too, played oldtime, small-apple politics. Nationally, the return of Tammany to type augured the return of the South to dominance in the Democracy...
...their respectable little papers. They were pleased that by his very presence Marion would attain a renown not unlike Dayton, Tenn., and Marion, Ohio. They were mortified that his intellectual friends should learn that Marion still had hog-zoning laws, that Marion edited both its Democratic and its Republican paper in one & the same shop...
Died. William Spry, 65, of Salt Lake City, since 1921 Commissioner of the General Land Office (Department of the Interior), twice (1909-17) Governor of Utah, Republican, Mormon, native of England; of paralysis; in Washington...