Word: republicanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hero Lindbergh should now attempt to succeed to his father's old seat in Congress. Against these suggestions arise three mighty obstacles: 1) Col. Lindbergh lacks a Minnesota residence. 2) Short, smiling Harold Knutson who took the Lindbergh seat a dozen years ago is firmly entrenched in the Republican organization of the House where he serves Speaker Longworth as whip (chief aide-de-camp) and from which he has no desire to be dislodged even by Hero No. 1 of the U. S. 3) Lindbergh Sr. made his political reputation as a radical. Col. Lindbergh has comfortable, conservative political...
Senate warriors last week stacked their arms and gave themselves over to quarreling as to who was to blame because the Tariff Battle did not move along more briskly. Republican Generalissimo Reed Smoot cried to his cohorts that it was "preposterous" to hold them at fault and that Freebooter Borah was "more than unfair" in so charging. Brigadier Borah thereupon crossed the lines to remark: "Senator Smoot is overworked and perhaps feels irritable. . . . No man in his calmer moments could have supposed that such a bill could have passed without a prolonged fight...
...candidates for the coming election were given charged grenades to throw. A Federal "cleanup" campaign produced grand jury indictments against 299 residents of East Chicago, Gary, South Bend, Ft. Wayne, on charges of violating liquor, white slave, narcotic and automobile theft laws. In East Chicago, Mayor Raleigh P. Hale, Republican candidate for reelection, and the Chiefs of Police and Detectives were all arrested for multifarious violations of Prohibition laws...
...decency debate was precipitated by Senator Bronson Cutting, Harvard-educated New Mexico Republican. He maintained that Customs officials are not qualified to pass upon literary imports. A recent example of the Customs censor ship was the barring of Voltaire's Candide, for centuries a classic, yet officially considered unfit for U. S. consumption. Other famed books barred from U. S. ports include unexpurgated editions of the Arabian Nights, various of the works of Aristophanes, Balzac, Rousseau, Havelock Ellis. Ridiculous, said Senator Cutting, was a situation in which "two-by-four clerks" could decide what the U. S. public might...
...week New Yorkers were disappointed to hear that the trial had been postponed to Nov. 12. For, said Judge Charles C. Nott Jr., city magistrate, "under no circumstances" would the trial be held while the election was still pending and the case remained a political football. Judge Nott, a Republican, is no Tammany man. Tammany opponents nevertheless flayed the postponement...