Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...votes Dry, drinks Dry, rarely talks Prohibition. Because of a deadlock he, a Democrat, was chosen chairman of the Republican- controlled Senate Interstate Commerce Committee during the 68th Congress...
...come from a State that rocked me in its cradle of States' rights and I stand for States' rights but the question of States' rights is not involved here. It is in the Constitution. ... I come from the great Democratic State of South Carolina but . . . the Republican party has given us a great President and I believe he is going down in history as one of the greatest Presidents [because] he stands for civic righteousness and enforcement of the law. ... I want to make this statement fearlessly while I stand on my feet: The great South...
Opposition. To "flexibility" and U. S. Valuation most Democratic Senators are opposed. Also in opposition are Idaho's Senator Borah and the Republican Progressives following his lead in the forthcoming tariff fight. Their objection is that the flexible provision of the law gives the President an unconstitutional power to "levy taxes," that U. S. Valuation is a subterfuge to obtain higher rates than the tariff bill itself would seem to grant...
...hours after the "persuasion" of Mayor Walker, upon the scene arrived Manhattan's short, swart, bustling Congressman Fiorella H. LaGuardia, to start his campaign for the Republican nomination to run against Mayor Walker. Said he: "The situation is by no means hopeless. . . . The big task is to find candidates with fighting hearts...
Among the 99 were Albert Ottinger, defeated Republican candidate for New York's governorship; Editor Oswald Garrison Villard of the pinko-liberal U. S. Nation; Norman C. Chambers, famed pneumatic toolman; Miss Rosemary Bauer, Chicago debutante, Liquid Carbonic heiress; Mrs. Mabel S. Ingalls, Manhattan socialite, niece of John Pierpont Morgan...