Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suppose that Andrew William Mellon entertains a doubt of the Republican party's ability to elect its carefully considered candidate, whoever he may be, is to suppose that a methodical mathematician would introduce an unnecessary variable into an important equation. To Mr. Mellon, politics is not a game, where chances are cheerfully taken, but a calculation, where chances are eliminated by careful thought. A final formula having been adopted, the factors necessary to make it work out are, so far as possible, obtained and introduced. Doubt is not a helpful factor where a positive result is desired. So doubt...
...Mellon's first experience of politics was in 1920 when he read in the newspaper that he had been named as a delegate-at-large to the National Republican convention of that year at Chicago. His first act was to ask Judge James H. Reed, his lawyer, father of Pennsylvania's present Senator, if the thing might not be avoided. Judge Reed said yes, of course it could be avoided, but he advised Mr. Mellon to accept as a matter of public duty. Mr. Mellon said he expected to be very occupied that coming June. Judge Reed said...
...besides the Secretary of the Treasury, the primate of Pennsylvania was speaking, and Pennsylvania is a primate among the States. So reliably Republican that its Favorite Sons never have to be considered for the Presidency, yet so large (38 electoral votes) that it can never be ignored, Pennsylvania enjoys a peculiar dominance in national G. O. P. conventions (and on Congressional committees). This dominance would be lessened by any division within the Pennsylvania organization. Hence Mr. Mellon's reiteration last week that the Pennsylvania G. O. P. is a "cohesive" whole, despite certain well known differences between Mellon...
...heard him as his party's greatest patrician. Today he fills the place in U. S. public life so long occupied by Charles Evans Hughes. Regardless of such sneerers as the New York World, which reminded people that Mr. Mellon came to office during the Harding regime, no Republican had a better right than he to talk, as he did last fortnight, about "the standard that we have set for this high office." Perhaps a thought of this crossed Candidate Lowden's agitated mind when he retorted to the Administration, for Mr. Lowden is something of a patrician...
...Centrist parties which for years have held the balance of power did not materially gain or lose in strength last week. Therefore, they will be compelled by the sweeping Socialist gains to admit to power, at last, the Socialist party which has always been largest in Republican Germany but has generally been held down by a coalition of smaller rivals...