Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Through a White House side-door slipped Republican Senators Watson and McNary. Gravely they talked to the President. After they had slipped out again, President Hoover lifted his voice, said things to the Senate about the tariff...
From the chaste portals of the White House executive offices last week emerged a figure which the dozens of news cameramen clustering around that famed entrance -and exit-were powerless to record. The figure was James Francis Burke, general counsel of Republican National Committee. What balked the photographers was that the Burke leave-taking of President Hoover's inner political household was not a formal, visible occurrence but a gradual fading-out process, like Alice's Cheshire cat, "beginning with the end of the tail and ending with the grin that remained some time after the rest...
...Burke was going, he said, back to Pittsburgh to resume his long-neglected law practice. Added he with understandable pride: "I have been virtually officiating as chairman of the Republican National Committee...
...Cheshire-cat smile on Mr. Burke's face as it faded from the White House picture was caused largely by one event: Otto Hermann Kahn, international banker and art patron, declined appointment by Senator George Higgins Moses to serve as treasurer of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee (TIME...
...details of rates . . . but he pointed out that the wide differences of opinion and the length of the discussions in the Senate were themselves ample demonstration of the desirability of a real flexible clause in order that injustice in rates could be promptly corrected. . . . "He urged the Republican leaders to get together and see if they could not . . . thus send the bill to conference with the House within the next two weeks...