Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate, Theodore Roosevelt refused to attend a club dinner in Chicago until an invitation to Mr. Lorimer was withdrawn. Said Mayor Thompson : "Roosevelt is riding for a fall. He will never get to the White House again. I predict that 'Billy' Lorimer will dine with a (rood Republican President in the White House. And I hope I'm there...
...elected U. S. Representatives. Here and there were statewide issues- constitutional amendments, laws, bond issues. From such results, political pundits made halfhearted attempts to draw large deductions. These deductions had to be colored highly by partisanship to become visible. G. O. Pundits said in effect: "The elections of three Republican U. S. Representatives, of many a Republican mayor, and, in Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith's New York, of many a Republican Assemblyman, indicate Republican strength...
...York voted heavily against amending its constitution to give its Governor a four-year term with elections in presidential years. Governor Smith led the Democratic fight against this amendment.*. . . Republicans gained four Assembly seats. . . . Democrats pushed through a $300,000,000 state bond issue for building Manhattan subways. . . . Republican mayors replaced Democratic in Buffalo, Schenectady, Little Falls, Rome. . . . Democratic mayors replaced Republicans in Auburn and Troy. . . . Tammany Democrats swamped New York City...
...Jersey stayed strongly Republican in both houses of its Legislature. . . . Democratic Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City again demonstrated his strength when his henchmen elected eleven of the 14 Democrats in the State Assembly. ... In Princeton, B. Frank Bunn, keeper of the University store, was elected mayor over Democratic Orren Jack Turner, town photographer. For the first time in Princeton's history, students of the University were kept from voting by the local election board. Professor Edward A. Stephens of the Hun Preparatory School, just outside the Princeton limits, was arrested for perjury when he swore his legal residence...
Kentucky. Flem D. Sampson, Republican, stood for retaining "pari-mutuel"*betting machines at racetracks. J. C. W. Beckham, Democrat, onetime (1915-21) U. S. Senator and onetime (1900-07) Governor, stood against mechanical, state-supervised betting, for private bookmaking. Each wanted to be Kentucky's Governor. Kentucky had a hard time deciding, but chose Mr. Sampson and the betting machines. Governor-elect Sampson announced that he would appoint none of his kin to office; that he who has three daughters,† would revoke Governor William J. Field's present rule against dancing in the executive mansion...