Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grover Cleveland drank. Calvin Coolidge does not. In many another way the two-term Democrat and the two-term Republican differ. Cleveland is the first President whom Calvin Coolidge can remember. A word unites them. It is perhaps Calvin Coolidge's favorite: "character." He keynoted it in a recent speech (Armistice Day). He has used it in nearly every speech. Last week, regretting his inability to make a speech on the 90th anniversary of Grover Cleveland's birth, he used it: "Character . . . stability . . . efficiency...
...Again, Republican Senators James E. Watson and Arthur R. Robinson personally besought the President to pardon onetime Indiana Governor Warren T. McCray, who is serving a ten-year term in Atlanta Penitentiary for using the mails to defraud (TIME...
...onetime Democrat, he became Secretary of the Treasury in a Republican administration. As such, he financed the first war which the U. S. fought against a civilized country other than Great Britain.* He was official head of Chicago's World's Fair. He was long President of Chicago's First National Bank-"its brains and body" forgotten La Salle Streeters called him. He married a Minnesota woman, a Colorado woman, a California woman. He "discovered" Frank A. Vanderlip. At 80, a soft veil of hair covered his head; with spreading beard and whiskers, he looked more...
...Passed the Deficiency Bill after a political debate in which Democrats charged the Republican party with being servile to the rich. Senator Couzens, Republican foe of Secretary Mellon, charged "fraud and crookedness" in the internal revenue bureau. Democrats, ruled out of order by Vice President Dawes, called for tax reduction...
...other end of the scale of argument, were the states' rights champions, who said flatly that the Senate had no Constitutional right to reject a duly elected Senator? be he a moron, a crook, a leper or anything else. Said Senator Bingham of Connecticut, a Republican: "The Senate has no divine right to keep itself 'holy and unspotted from the world.' It was created by the people of the United States to do for them certain things which they could not do so well themselves. To choose their representatives was not one of them. . . . Is the Senate empowered...