Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate passed the treaty with but one opposing vote, that of Senator John J. Elaine, Progressive Republican of Wisconsin. Two days later he was soundly rebuked by the Wisconsin legislature." This last statement is false. The Wisconsin Legislature did nothing of the kind. True, a resolution was introduced in the Wisconsin Senate to that effect. But reference to pages 193-194 of the Senate journal, herewith enclosed, will show that when the resolution came up for consideration, it was killed by a unanimous vote, including the vote of the Senator who introduced the resolution...
...like to know why no portrait of Harding hangs in the White House. Has such a portrait ever hung there? Is there any reason why one should not hang there? Has his picture been baned from the White House just as, according to some reports, it was banned from Republican Headquarters throughout the country, during the recent presidential campaign? Does TIME know? Will TIME tell...
...become a partner in the law firm from which James W. Good retired to become Mr. Hoover's Secretary of War. Edward T. Clark, Mr. Coolidge's other secretary, became Vice President of Drug Inc., a subsidiary of United Drug Co., of which Louis Kroh Liggett, Republican National Committeeman of Massachusetts, is President...
...Agriculture Committee will meet on March 27 and is expected to have a farm relief measure ready for Congress to act on as soon as it meets. The Republican members of the Ways & Means Committee are already quietly writing a tariff bill? it will be known as the Smoot-Hawley bill ?without consulting their Democratic colleagues. Because of their majority the Republicans can report the bill and probably get it through the House under a special rule prohibiting amendments. In the Senate, however, where no such rule will apply, the question will be torn wide open and the bill...
...been held one of the leading members. He was a member of the Board of Overseers of the University from 1922 to 1928, and has given almost twenty years to the service of the Commonwealth: was Speaker of the House for four years: and in 1928 was the Republican nominee for United States Senator, to be defeated by his Democratic opponent. At the last Republican convention, in Kansas City, he distinguished himself further as secretary of the committee on credentials, and his speech offering Alvan T. Fuller as a vice-presidential possibility was a feature of the gathering...