Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME'S footnote said: "A 'facts and figures' campaign speech in Philadelphia caused a good Republican audience, provoked by his schoolmarm manner, to boo Senator Smoot...
Congressman John Nance Garner, new minority leader of the House, last week discovered a leak, let out a warning shout. His face red with apprehension, he pointed an accusing finger at the locked double doors of the House Ways & Means Committee behind which Republican committee members were secretly writing a new tariff bill. Mr. Garner charged that through the doors had seeped many a fact by which shrewd men in trade could profit. Such leaks, he cried, were "unfair . . . unjust . . . not right . . . wrong . . . indefensible!" Republicans calmly retorted that, if leaks there had been about the new tariff bill, they were...
...Philippines. Mr. Alunan had once been president of the Philippine Sugar Association and, in his official capacity as Secretary of Agriculture, he foresees only ruin for the Island's industry if the U. S. taxes their chief product. Secretary Stimson was sympathetic. He went before the Republican members of the Ways & Means Committee last week as an evangel for free Philippine sugar...
...protest at Washington against the boarding, the swaggering display of firearms, the "threatening and profane" language before Mrs. Fish and the boys. With yachtsmen fuming, pleasure-boat builders professed belief that the Government was threatening their business. President William Hartman Woodin of American Car and Foundry Co. - a Wet Republican who supported Alfred Emanuel Smith for President - called for united protest, thus: "Certainly the sport of boating cannot be safe if the lives and property of boat owners are subject to such perils. . . . Our Government should be asked to curtail the activities of Coast Guard boats. . . . Boat manufacturers with large...
...learned Oriental languages, heard confessions in German, Greek, Turkish. Some-times they adopted and altered slightly alien rituals to make their gospel first familiar, then embraced. In Jerusalem they erected the Hôtelrie de Notre Dame de France. Here in 1893 was held a Eucharistic Congress. In 1900, republican France accused the Assumptionist Fathers of royalist intrigues. Their schools were closed, their activities halted. They fled to Italy, Belgium. England, the U. S. Thus it came to pass that their little college in Worcester, Mass., was founded...