Word: republicanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offices, the same office staff, the same cash solicitors. Their collections are pooled. Their field agents last year brought in $209,586. In return they supplied contributors with "educational bulletins" on tax and tariff matters, gave "expert" advice on fiscal affairs. Sample expenditure: $700 to Frank D. Mondell, onetime Republican floor leader of the House, now a lobbying lawyer, to urge a higher duty on peanuts before the tariff commission. The sum of $77,936.44 went to Lobbyist Arnold and his three chief assistants, one of whom, a Mrs. Darden. had a "stage name for collecting money." Lobbyist Arnold pleaded...
...What had prompted this Utterance was the growing defeatist attitude of the regular Republican cohorts in the Senate. There had been talk of outright surrender to the coalition of Democrats and Progressive Republicans, of adjourning the Senate Nov. 15 and leaving the Tariff Bill supine upon a deserted field. Such futility had pervaded the Republican camp that Brigadier Hiram Johnson of California remarked to his comrades-in-arms...
From the battlefield departed Republican Chief of Staff Watson of Indiana, worn to a frazzle by the tariff fray. His physician had ordered a three-week "rest" in Florida. Gossipers spoke of the failure of his leadership, predicted that Brigadier Charles McNary of Oregon would soon be advanced to Chief of Staff. So feeble became the tariff fighting that Democratic Chief of Staff Robinson also went off, for a fortnight's holiday in Arkansas. Combat came to a farcical standstill on Saturday when brigadier generals deserted wholesale. General Edge went to New Jersey, preventing action on his earthenware schedules...
...this new line M. Daladier worked furiously until midnight, then saw in earliest morning papers that M. Briand had told the famed Havas Agency he would support not a "moderate centre" cabinet but one of "republican union." In plain English this meant insisting that Radical Socialist Daladier seek support for his cabinet further to the right than his own party would stand for. Frenzied, he rushed to the telephone and rang M. Briand's number, rang it again and again, drew his own conclusions when he got no answer? such at least was his story. In a welter of rage...
Clémentel Interlude. Since the cabinet crisis has now lasted over a week, flustered President Gaston ("Gastounet") Doumergue hastily cast about for a man who might be able to form a cabinet of "republican union," chose that elderly vegetarian M. Le Senateur Étienne Clémentel,* the distinguished President Fondateur of the International Chamber of Commerce...