Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...round-shouldered man was William Morgan Butler, outgoing chairman of the National Republican Committee. After leaving the dais at Kansas City, he had fulfilled his duty by calling on the holder of "the most important position in the world."-In the wet woods, on an island, in a cabin, beside a fire, they had discussed politics scarcely at all, Mr. Butler said. They had talked about fishing. They had gone fishing. Mr. Butler had caught some fish. He would not tell whether President Coolidge had caught any. He was going to Boston. The rain continued...
Nominee Curtis also called and with this visit the Hoover campaign for election formally began. The Hoover-Curtis conference, which lasted several hours, was for the purpose of drafting a new slate of officers for the National Republican Committee. Observers estimated that this conference consisted of about 98% Hoover decision, plus 2% Curtis suggestion...
...Work. With continued uncommunicativeness, except as to the factual results, the Republican National Committee's subcommittee to cooperate with the Candidates was taken into conference, Hooverized, given some luncheon, dismissed. It did leak out that the Hoover campaign is to be a businesslike affair, based on the Coolidge record, with no mudslinging at the Democrats countenanced or tolerated. Senator Moses said: "When we begin to campaign . . . we won't call him 'AP but we will refer to him as the governor of New York...
...replace William Morgan Butler as National Republican Chairman, the committee elected Dr. Hubert Work, grey-bristled Secretary of the Interior. Dr. Work's centre of influence is supposed to be in Colorado, where he long practiced medicine and where, at Pueblo, he founded a hospital. The choice of a more easterly generalissimo for the G. 0. P. campaign had been expected, since the ticket is California-and-Kansas and since the sharpest competition between the two parties is expected to centre in the urban East. But the Work-for-Chairman movement was many months old. Dr. Work...
Money. Prompt to champion Nominee Hoover and the Dry-spoken Republican platform was President (Mrs.) Ella A. Boole of the W. C. T. U. "We will show our appreciation," said she. Dr. S. E. Nicholson, secretary of the Anti-Saloon League, put it the other way around. He promised that anti-salooners would spend $250,000 in New York State alone to beat Democrat Smith...