Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of last week's political convulsion in Republican Illinois (see p. 11) was the acquisition of 49 of his home State's 61 delegates by Candidate Lowden. Other victories in the Midwest having brought the Lowden delegates to a total of 183, Clarence F. Buck, the Lowden impresario, announced that Mr. Lowden would be nominated at Kansas City on the fourth ballot...
...Harry A. Mackay, mayor of Philadelphia, creature of the beery Republican machine of U. S. Senator-suspect Vare, took some Congressmen for a tour of the Philadelphia Navy Yard last week. On the way he made a speech, saying: "In Washington they have all the dry members of Congress who make the laws and have legislative authority over the District of Columbia. They could mobilize very easily the greatest force of dry agents in the country. They have the highest administrative authority-the President of the United States-and yet Philadelphia is making a far greater effort than Washington...
...said in 1920 that Will Hays was a menace to America, and I have never since seen fit to retract my statement. During my Presidential campaign, almost eight years ago, I dwelt repeatedly on a $15,000,000 'slush fund' which I accused the Republican Party of receiving. . . . There are untold funds that went to the Harding campaign fund, of which no trace will ever be found, in all probability...
Among the Republicans, it was a spectacular primary even for spectacular Illinois. It was the Republicans who tried to spell Reform. About 100,000 Democrats got excited and joined in the G. O. P. melee, confusing things more than ever. The Republican primary had the following results and implications...
When Secretary of the Treasury Mellon testified before the Senate investigating committee in regard to the bonds contributed to the Republican Party by Harry F. Sinclair, the newspapers generally gave the Secretary credit for his action, but the committee's prosecutor let Boston know that he disapproved of Mellon's action by pointing out that Mellon must have known from the beginning of the iniquity attached to Sinclair's contribution. Mellon refused to censure Will Hay's acceptance of the money or to give any information to the committee at the time. Senator Walsh said that when Mellon was made...