Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Interwoven with the poetic freedom which portrays the more inexpressible thoughts of the woods is a subtle humor. In two unexpected lines, Vachel Lindsay summarizes neatly a whole political campaign. The couplet bears repeating for the benefit of staunch members of the Republican club...
...Passed 49-27 the Naval Appropriation Bill carrying $320,000,000 including $1,200,000 for the immediate construction of three cruisers. The cruisers had previously been thrown out in the House by 22 votes, most of the Republican leaders voting for the cruisers against the President's wishes. In the Senate, the "radicals" and a few staunch Administration] sts sided with the President against cruisers. A majority of both parties were impressed by figures: Great Britain has 54 cruisers, Japan 25, U. S. 15.* The cruiser item will again be fought in the House, but passage is likely...
...five years the farm-threat has hung dagger-like above the Republican party. But so impotent has been the Democratic party that the farmers have never let the dagger drop except to prick here and there a political life. For three and one-half years, President Coolidge has unequivocally opposed every farm bill which the farm bloc desired. And, while he has not signed any of the bills which the farm bloc did not want, he has never offered any plan of relief. He has confined himself to advising farmers to cooperate on their own initiative. Hitherto, the President...
Died. Col. John W. McCullough, 67, distiller of famed Green River whiskey, onetime member of the Republican National Committee; of apoplexy, in Owensboro...
...Republican Rome had its Slave Revolt, sixteen century Europe its Peasant Uprisings, the turn of the nineteenth century its Red Terror, and contemporary Western civilization its Third inter-national. The first three were perpetual nightmares to the conservative mind in their respective periods. The last is rapidly becoming...