Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carry on the tradition of Walcott service to the state and of the State's contribution to the U. S. Senate, Connecticut proudly elected Frederic C. Walcott, of old Yale and Republican ancestry...
...Jersey, Wet Democratic Edward I. Edwards fell before mild-faced Hamilton F. Kean. In Montana, bitter was the battle and sweet the victory for famed radical Democrat Burton K. Wheeler. But in West Virginia bitter was the battle and bitter the defeat of War Hero M. M. Neely by Republican Henry D. Hatfield...
...House. Aside from the prospect that the Republican majority manipulated by Wet Speaker Nicholas Longworth and Leader John Q. Tilson will be bigger than ever, it was noted that the House of Representatives in the next Congress will include a Negro, Oscar De Priest of Chicago. Also, it will contain seven women, four who were re-elected and three Ruths (see p. 11). It will also have a newspaperman, Louis Ludlow, of Indianapolis, onetime Washington correspondent, but there will be no Socialist since Wisconsin's Berger was defeated...
...Democratic ticket into office with him, but he established himself as the most mentionable personality in his party until the 1928 presidential nomination is settled." Thus reported TIME, after the November elections of 1926. In 1928, a Democrat again became Governor of New York despite a national Republican landslide (as Smith had done in 1924). The victor was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who had, in 1920, in 1924, and 1928 placed the name of Smith before Democratic Conventions, and who had dubbed him The Happy Warrior. With his Warrior in unhappy defeat, Governor-Elect Roosevelt took small pleasure in predictions that...
Never during the campaign did Wall Street seriously entertain the possibility of Democratic victory. At the last, confidence in Republican success held the stockmarket firm, gave particular strength to public utility stocks. In the pre-election session, Commonwealth Power advanced 2½ points to a new high of 89⅜. Close behind were Columbia Gas, Consolidated Gas, American and foreign power...