Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sharply the committee scrutinized Lobbyist Arnold's activities on the current tariff bill. Testimony indicated a broad streak of duplicity. Letters showed that while he was working with Southern Democrats for special protective rates, he was also passing along to the Republican Regulars secret information of the Democratic-Insurgent coalition against the measure. Once he wrote that he would "put courage into" President Hoover to make him "stand" for the House rates on sugar...
...white flag was run up over the Republican ramparts on the tariff battlefield in the Senate last week, but the Democratic and Progressive Republican warriors, their honor stung by vile names hurled at them across the trenches, refused to cease firing...
Jackass. Disgruntled at their failure to win any tariff victories, Republican troopers took to sticking out their tongues at the enemy, calling them naughty names. First Major-General Reed of Pennsylvania referred to western senators as "worse than Communists." Then Lobbyist Grundy. also of Pennsylvania, called them representatives of "backward commonwealths" (TIME, Nov. 11). Last week came the crowning insult from the lips of swashbuckling General George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire. President Pro Tempore of the Senate...
Exhibit. Ancient is the Republican trick of bringing into the Senate Chamber during a tariff war an assortment of cheap imported articles to illustrate arguments on foreign cost, duty, selling price. In 1922 an elaborate display was set before the Senate when John Sharp Williams, onetime (1911-23) Senator from Mississippi, entered the chamber in an absent-minded mood. He fondled a large cloth monkey with a red tail. He wiggled a cuckoo clock so roughly that it crashed to the floor in ruins. Last week the Senate Chamber held another similar exhibition, including toy soldiers, a violin, an umbrella...
Immovably rough and rugged is Idaho's highest mountain, rising in independent grandeur above wild country between the Big Lost River and Pahsimeroi ranges. No less rugged is Idaho's senior U. S. Senator, William Edgar Borah, rising in independent grandeur above the wild Senate between the Republican and Democratic ranges...