Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge. Three weeks ago, a Republican committee at Cheyenne, Wyo., adopted a resolution setting forth that Calvin Coolidge had advanced the U. S. materially, intellectually, morally; that he had been "a factor for good" internationally; that his wisdom and beneficence should not be interrupted and that, therefore, Calvin Coolidge was requested "to waive his personal preference and consent to continue...
When this resolution reached the White House last week, the political air was full of similar sentiments, expressed for various reasons by Republican statesmen in Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts. Unlike the Wyoming statesmen, however, the others were not dignifying their admiration for President Coolidge by formal petitions to him. For example, in Chicago, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson was frankly borrowing the Coolidge virtues as window-dressing for a campaign in behalf of discredited Governor Len Small...
Though he was one of its least conspicuous members, Senator Ferris' death made a difference of two votes in the Senate. The Democrats lost him and the Republicans stood to gain a seat when his successor was appointed by Republican Governor Frederick W. Green of Michigan...
...Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, by whom Sinclair was lately tried and sentenced for contempt of court, was momentarily dragged into the case, then dropped when a mysterious package of '"bonds" turned out to be Christmas cards. The spirit of error spread. In the Senate, the Republican Robinson, from politically malodorous Indiana, arose and inquired if Harry F. Sinclair had not been a New York State horse-race commissioner from 1922 to 1925. Senator Nye jumped up and volunteered that it was his "understanding" that Sinclair had been "a very liberal contributor ... in the campaign...
...basis of Senator Nye's "understanding" about a Smith-Sinclair relation turned out to be a letter he had just received from a casual Manhattan newsgatherer, one Charles T. White, who was forthwith discharged by his employers on the Republican New York Herald-Tribune. Records showed that Sinclair had never contributed to a Smith campaign fund, though in 1918 he gave $1,000 to New York County Democrats. In 1920, four years before the Oil Scandals broke, Governor Smith made Sinclair a racing commissioner with a five-year term. In the 1920 campaign Smith lost. These facts Governor Smith brought...