Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sailors, Washington rumored and conjectured reasons for the alteration. Some said that Mr. Hoover was returning because of unexpected opposition to supposed members of his cabinet-Andrew Mellon in particular, or he was coming home to save the Kellogg-Briand Peace Treaty, or the trouble was that Hubert Work, Republican National Committee Chairman, had planned to take "patronage" (i.e., job issuing) out of Congressional hands and into the committee's and his own, and Mr. Hoover was going to Washington to quell the protests of indignant Senators and Representatives...
William S. Vare, Republican boss of Philadelphia, wants to crown his career by taking his seat in the U. S. Senate...
...satisfied: 1) that Cyril intrigued with revolutionaries against Nicholas II, and was well content when the Tsar was sent to Siberia (where he was later assassinated); 2) that as the revolution assumed an uglier phase Cyril was the only one of the Grand Dukes to proclaim himself "republican," and thus managed to remain snug in his palace at Petrograd, long after other Romanovs were exiled and many murdered; 3) that the Grand Duke Cyril actually renounced his imperial prerogatives, in a panic, and called himself "Citizen Cyril Romanov"; 4) that in any case Nicholas II detested the Grand Duke Cyril...
Died. Winfield Taylor Durbin, 81, onetime Republican Governor of Indiana (1901-05), financier (banks, public utilities), Civil & Spanish War veteran, of Anderson, Ind.; of bronchial pneumonia; in Anderson...
Engaged. Helen Train, daughter of Author Arthur Cheney Train (Mr. Tutt stories) of Manhattan & Bar Harbor; to Charles Dewey Hilles Jr., Manhattan lawyer, son of the potent New York State Republican...