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Word: republicanized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Funds. Treasurer William V. Hodges of the Republican National Committee denied a report that he would retire as a result of the Oil Scandal inquiry (see p. 12). He stated that G. 0. P. funds in 1928 would be plentiful for "a proper campaign"; that the 90,000 contributors of 1924 would this year be swelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Candidates' Row | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...Wilbur gave the appearance of a very embarrassed Secretary. But he did not retreat. Representative McClintic, vociferous Oklahoman, respectfully informed him that "a Cabinet member ought to have sufficient judgment to know better." Mr. Wilbur blinked and stayed. Republican Leader Tilson got up to meet the storming Democrats with the ambiguous remark that it was a great pity that Cabinet officials did not come to Congress more often, and the Messrs. Hudson and Britten assured him that Secretaries Taft and Josephus Daniels used frequently to mingle with Congressmen on the floor of the House. Mr. Wilbur stayed to the bitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Visitor | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

Senator Robinson of Indiana, Republican, not wishing to be left out of the wordfest, said that Mr. Sinclair had also contributed to the campaign fund of Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York, in 1920. In that campaign, Governor Smith met his only popular defeat at the hands of Nathan L. Miller, who was later an attorney for Sinclair-partner Harry M. Blackmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Fashions In Silence | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...examine the papers of the late President Harding, particularly those concerning the sale of his Marion Star for the large sum of $380,000. On the floor of the Senate, that same afternoon, campaign funds were on a dozen lashing tongues. Pat Harrison of Mississippi, Democrat, told of a Republican dinner in Chicago in 1920 where Vice President Coolidge made "a rip snorting speech" before "the big fat fellows from all over the country, who had more money than they knew what to do with." Senator Borah made another plea for his Republican retribution fund:* "I believe the [Sinclair] conspiracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Fashions In Silence | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...Senate, Mr. Hays was flayed as a "fence" (purveyor of stolen goods). Mr. Butler, as present chairman of the Republican National Committee, was asked by Senator Borah if the party might not at once pay back to Harry Ford Sinclair the sums it had taken from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Fashions In Silence | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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