Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...firm believer in straightforward honesty and uprightness. I don't believe Mr. Anderson is very confident in his prediction of a landslide for Hoover. I believe he is afraid Smith will be elected. I believe he is another Republican who is afraid of a beating and resorts to the dastardly act of creating vile propaganda to prevent...
...York Evening Sun (Republican) reported the incident as follows in its news columns: "His [Attorney General Sargent's] hand was forced . . . when President Coolidge, taking cognizance of the charges of Senator Walsh, bluntly told the Attorney-General that the opinion never should have been delayed in publication. The President is described as having been nettled when he learned that his own departments had been holding out on him in the matter of this aftermath of the oil scandals, and to have issued orders that action be taken instanter without regard to the election of November...
...People are tired of hearing of these oil leases."-Dr. Hubert Work, onetime (1923-28) Secretary of the Interior, now Chairman of the Republican National Committee...
...Justice to look into and report on the Salt Creek lease to Sinclair. Attorney General Sargent turned the matter over to Assistant Attorney General William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan. The result was awaited attentively, not only by Senator Walsh, but by Senator Capper of Kansas. The latter, a faithful Republican, did not seek to embarrass the Administration, but there were potent oil men in Kansas who wanted to know what was what. Not the lease provocative feature of Oilman Sinclair's Salt Creek contract was that it was exceedingly bad business for the U. S. Prices had risen...
Last week's Republican strategy was to fire big guns toward the South...