Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia detectives arrested two Negro youths for wearing corsets within which were fastened hot water bottles containing whiskey. The charge was illegal transportation. ¶ One of Mr. Lament's former A. A. P. A. associates was Banker Charles H. Sabin of Manhattan. Mrs. Charles H. Sabin,- Republican National Committeewoman from New York, campaigned last fall for Mr. Hoover, saying that she believed his election would be the most practical way of securing Modification. What she thinks* of the President's becoming the rallying point of the Drys is not known but last week she resigned as Committeewoman, saying...
...year county job, against incredible odds, and held it for eight years. For six years he was Mayor of Indianapolis. Marion County had gone Democratic the year Taggart was born. He brought it into the Democratic column again when he was 32, although Benjamin Harrison, the Republican candidate for President, lived in Indianapolis. With one hand Taggart built up a large hotel enterprise, acquired French Lick Springs. With the other hand he ran politics. He managed the campaign of Alton Brooks Parker for President in 1904. In 1912 he started the swing to Wilson in the Baltimore convention...
...Louis last week were held mayoralty primaries. The Republican and Democratic candidates with their weights and dimensions were as follows...
...Treasury, has been opposed to any rise in the rediscount rate, that his influence has kept the Board from taking drastic measures. Neither personal nor political reasons are lacking to make such an attitude logical for Mr. Mellon. Not only is the Bull Market an evidence of Republican Prosperity, but rising rediscount rates would make more difficult the flotation of Treasury Loans. Whether or not the Reserve Board is, as Mr. Warburg says, "bewildered by political influence," it is certain that many a speculator considers that in Mr. Mellon he has a friend in the high places...
Died. Moses Edwin Clapp ("The Black Eagle of Minnesota"), 77, Washington lawyer, longtime Republican Senator from Minnesota (1901-17), Progressive associate of the late, great Robert Marion La Follette; of apoplexy; at his country home, Union Farm (once part of George Washington's estate), near Accotink, Va. In the 1916 Minnesota primary. Senator Clapp was defeated, as was the late U. S. Representative Charles A. Lindbergh. The victor was Frank Billings Kellogg. In 1927 Mr. Clapp rescued his small granddaughter from drowning in the Potomac, suffered a lasting shock...