Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quandary, the G.O.P.'s Committee on Arrangements met in Kansas City last week. Besides deciding where the Negro delegates were to be lodged and what "stunts" the parade should perform and how the convention hall should be decorated, they had a delicate question to answer. What Republican, they had to ask themselves, was best qualified to be Temporary Chairman in June? The traditional, and the sole function of a Temporary Chairman is to make a keynote speech which shall put all factions in a happy frame of mind, inspire the country and prelude Victory...
...office until the Harding regime, when he became Harry Micajah Daugherty's Assistant Attorney General. He only reached the U. S. Senate in 1925. By that time John William Davis, his younger fellow-townsman, was foremost Democrat in the land. Guy Despard Goff, as it happens, is a Republican, so no real rivalry exists. But if Guy Despard Goff had stayed in Clarksburg, he too might have been a Democrat, perhaps head Democrat...
Senate-leaders Curtis (Republican) and Robinson (Democrat) had put their heads together and determined that, after all, Flood Relief was not a thing to bicker and trifle over. They had agreed to ram Senator Jones' bill, all points of which had been settled in committee, through to a vote at the first opportunity. The opportunity came when Wisconsin's Blaine long and earnestly opposed Senator Norbeck's migratory bird bill, providing Federal bird sanctuaries to be paid for by Federal hunting licenses at $1 each. So long, so earnestly did Senator Elaine and one or two others...
Editor Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of the Grand Rapids Herald, 44-year-old Republican, Mason, Shriner, Elk, Woodman, was appointed Senator from Michigan last week to succeed Woodbridge N. Ferris, 75-year-old Democrat who died of pneumonia last fortnight. Mr. Vandenberg made the fifth journalist in the Upper House. Fellow Republican publishers to whom he can look from behind his horn-rimmed glasses for encouragement in his maiden speech are Cutting of New Mexico, Capper of Kansas, La Follette of Wisconsin. Senator-publisher Carter Glass of Virginia sits across the aisle among the Democrats...
Political Angle. No man in Chicago counts himself a politician of any repute until he has been pineappled or at least threatened. And no man is at present more entangled in Chicago politics than Senator Deneen. He is leader of the Republican faction that is fighting to oust the incumbent administration of Mayor Thompson, State's Attorney Crowe, Governor Len Small, plus Frank L. Smith who is again running for the seat in the U. S. Senate in which he was not permitted to sit. The "better element" and all the Chicago newspapers (except the two Hearst papers...