Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevertheless, the New York Herald Tribune, leading G. O. P. organ in the East, published a distinctly emotional editorial called "A Nationwide Mandate," in which it told that 30 of 42 Republican National Committeemen from whom it had elicited expressions refused to believe that President Coolidge would ignore a party call. Governor Fuller of Massachusetts led a New England chorus of even stronger effect: Calvin Coolidge would be wanted again and he would have to respond. The President's closest political friend of all, Chairman William M. Butler of the Republican National Committee, steadfastly refused to be convinced that...
...days passed, less was heard about draft, more about miscellaneous candidacies. Thus, U. S. Senator Frederick H. Gillette, a Republican, of the inner Massachusetts set, pointed to Charles Evans Hughes as his first choice, to Herbert Hoover as his second...
Draft or no draft, Republicans felt that the President's announcement would greatly aid the party in resolving a major situation which an Iowa newspaper described as follows: "The Republican East is in the saddle and the Republican West is in arms...
...said little. Governor-Candidate Alfred E. Smith of New York said nothing. George E. Brennan, boss Democrat of Illinois, said he could discover no effect on Democratic chances. The loudest gloater, oddly enough, was the majestic New York Times, which said: "When will our dazed friends, the Republican politicians, quit sobbing and sputtering like a child whose china lamb has just been smashed? Their chagrin at the wreck of their plans is intelligible, if somewhat amusing. The pins were all set up, and now they are all knocked down...
After losing the Republican nomination for President in 1920 he accepted the thankless job of Governor General of the Philippines. His administration was highly efficient, productive ? though Filipinos clamoring for independence called it harsh. Said Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippine Senate, long a foe of Governor General Wood's administration: "He was always courteous to me. He was a hard working chief executive and always determined in his purpose to do the right thing...