Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican National Committeeman Charles Dewey Hilles returned from the Middle West last week and announced that here and there but not everywhere the farmers resent the veto of the McNary-Haugen bill...
...Tilden, Cleveland and Wilson were elected. The tariff then as now was building up a privileged class, With the exception that today schedules are made in secret and our policy has caused European Governments to raise high walls against American manufacturers. Corruption then as now had driven men from Republican Cabinets, only then despoilers were pikers who lined their pockets with thousands, while in our day the booty has gone into millions. Privilege then extorted hundreds from the pockets of taxpayers instead of the thousands now demanded and given...
...President Coolidge of failure to pursue a definite policy toward Nicaragua. Even a reader of the tabloids could probably explain the grounds of their contention. Surely one gets no evidence of a consistent policy from the utterances of the State Department nor the official spokesman," nor even from the Republican journals of opinion which seek to interpret these Delphic utterances to a misled public...
...most alarming thing about the incident is the apathy with which it has been received. The New York Tribune was one of the few Republican papers to comment on Haines' return to grace. It stated quite baldly that the President had to make the choice between incompetence and the loss of support of the Anti-Saloon League. He chose incompetence. Possible votes twenty months from now, then, are of more importance than present and effective administration of government. And no one seems to care a great deal perhaps because no one will cavil at ineffective dry administration...
...necessary duty, rather than as a pleasure. Democracy in his mind rated only next to tyranny as the poorest form of government. The McNary-Haugen bill put through merely to discredit the administration, advice of Joseph Daniels to the democratic party that they base their 1928 platform on Republican corruption, Haines' recent reappointment --all these go to suggest that Plato was right...