Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delegates of the Peasants' Federation assembled in Chicago have proclaimed General Pershing as candidate for President of the United States* The American Legion has announced that it would lend all its support to the candidacy of the former chief of the American army. It is possible that the Republican party in its desire to avoid an internal conflict in the country will put up as its candidate Mr. Smith, the Governor of New York...
Though New Mexico's Senators were both Democrats, her Governor, Richard C. Dillon, is a Republican. Senator Jones's death put the technical balance of the Senate's power into Governor Dillon's hands. With Senators-suspect Vare of Pennsylvania and Smith of Illinois off the floor, the Republicans mustered only 46 votes, requiring the vote of Farmer-Laborite Shipstead (Minnesota) to bring them even with the 47 Democrats; and the vote of Vice President Dawes to break a partisan deadlock. Now the Democrats were reduced to 46, and the Republicans stood to gain a seat...
...newly-elected alderman in the Flushing district of Queens took over Lawyer Klein's evidence and charges and passed them up to Albany, asking Governor Smith to suspend and investigate the entire Connolly regime. Since President Connolly is a Democrat, the Republican Legislature of New York yearned to conduct this inquiry. In Manhattan, Mayor James J. Walker yearned to conduct the inquiry because President Connolly had opposed Mayor Walker's election, being a political brother of famed John F. Hylan, Mayor Walker's old-style predecessor...
...front of the million-dollar state capitol at Frankfort, Kentucky changed governors midstream. Out went Governor William J. Fields, Democrat. In came Governor Flem D. Sampson, Republican. So freakish had been Kentucky's political currents that Republican Governor Sampson entered office with a Democratic Lieutenant Governor (James Breathitt Jr.) and a departmental staff which is Democratic to a man. Soon a Democratic legislature will convene. Surrounded by Democratic Philistines, Governor Sampson was not, however, shorn by a Democratic Delilah. Hampered in obtaining legislation, he can still veto legislation. Governor Sampson was elected because Governor Fields wanted to smash...
...Governor Edwin P. Morrow, Mr. Fields' Republican predecessor, did not have time to record all his last-minute pardons in the executive journal. For days after Mr. Fields took office, convicts' relatives poured in bearing Morrow pardons. Some years ago, while Kentucky's Governor and Lieutenant Governor were out of the state for three days, acting Governor Thomas A. Combs issued scores of pardons, including one to a felon who had pleaded guilty...