Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last night before a group of about 150 students, at the Harvard Union, referred to the 1928 presidential campaign. Senator Walsh paid no attention to the stock issues of the campaign, utterly ignoring matters pertaining to A1 Smith, the League of Nations, or prohibition, but he railled at the Republican party, its methods of operation, its organization, and its corrupt practices...
...tolerance." And, "The nobility of the mighty dead cannot be lessened by the puerility of the living." But the fair-day crowd at Sedalia, Mo., would not enjoy epigrams. What Senator Reed gave them last week was a good old-fashioned balloon ascension with oratorical sandbags dropping on Republican malefactors. Sedalia, Mo., pronounced it Senator Reed's best speech...
...Representative Fiorello H. La Guardia, talkative New York Republican, had a dinner engagement with U. S. Representative William Leighton Carss of Minnesota, at Duluth. The day came and Representative La Guardia was still in New York. Representative La Guardia got into an airplane and in few hours, whizzing westward, was looking down on the sprawling metropolygon that is Chicago. Landing for fuel at Chicago's municipal airport, Representative La Guardia's plane hit a rut, upended, shook up Representative La Guardia and his pilot, broke a propeller and a dinner engagement...
Prediction. Said 93-year-old Chauncey Mitchell Depew last week: ". . . With a ringing speech by some leading Republican, I anticipate there will be a stampede, followed by a unanimous call to Mr. Coolidge to accept a renomination. I don't believe any human being could resist such a draft.... If I remember correctly I am the only man twice invited by acclamation to address a Republican National Convention, and without a time limit. I'd like to do it once more...
Died. John Dalzell, 82, for 26 years (1887-1913) Republican member of Congress from Pittsburgh; at Altadena, Calif. Known as "Father of the House", he with Payne, Dingley and Cannon, were the "big four" who shaped legislation...