Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House breakfast season was inaugurated when 16 tried and true Republicans trooped into the family dining-room behind President Coolidge at eight o'clock to eat cantaloupe, oatmeal, bacon, eggs, hot cakes, maple syrup, sausage, toast, and take their choice of milk, tea or coffee. The President talked with vim about business and weather conditions, G.O.P. prospects and the World's Series. Most of the guests were members of the Republican National Committee and Chairman William Morgan Butler thereof sat on the right hand of the President. But "Coolidge for 1928" talk was conspicuously suppressed...
...Butler was heading for Washington to confer informally with some members of the Republican National Committee, whom he had summoned privately by letter. The "Sic 'Em Boys" (Democrats, insurgent Republicans, and copy-starved political correspondents) anticipated his arrival by spreading reports that Mr. Butler was still planning a "Draft-Coolidge" movement. When the President characterized these reports as "unfriendly," the "Sic 'Em Boys" transferred the epithet to Mr. Butler and forecast a Coolidge-Butler spat. They also whispered that Mr. Butler was going to pick the G. O. P. convention city; that Mr. Butler was perturbed over insurgency...
...Republican National Chairman paraphrases this limerick at least once every four years, substituting "March" for "July" in the last line. The first line contains the first charge of his chairmanship. If the Republican elephant is to jump the fence, there must be moneys. So well is this known now by good Republicans that the financial duties of the National Treasurer have become almost automatic. All Mr. Butler has to do is indicate the amounts that seem necessary and his committeemen do the asking-papa part...
...choose to run for the Republican nomination for Congressman-at-large from Illinois in the April primary of 1928," said Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, among other things, last week...
...became Speaker of the House, Mrs. McCormick and Mrs. Longworth formed the friendship that is now said to be one of the strongest influences keeping Mrs. McCormick in politics. Other influences are Mrs. McCormick's unboastful estimate of her own undoubted political acumen; her experience since 1924 as Republican National Committeewoman from Illinois; and heredity. In Illinois, she will run for nomination as the protegée of well-entrenched Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago, against Congressman Henry R. Rathbone who did not support Mayor Thompson in his loud "100% American" campaign last year, and against Congressman Richard...