Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heard that the Republican members of the Ways and Means Committee had unanimously voted against the acceptance of the Administration's tax refund proposal and had rejected the Democratic plan for a permanent tax reduction...
...course, it was the same Senate-the 69th. There was Sen. Charles Curtis, the Republican leader, getting up from his back row seat and going out with Sen. Reed Smoot, the tall, lean Mormon, who is Chairman of the Finance Committee. When the latter speaks, it is with a dry holy passion for financial soundness. Mr. Curtis rarely speaks, but together they steer, or attempt to steer the Senate. Last week they brought peace into the Republican ranks, placated the insurgents with good committeeships...
...floor the Democrats scoffed at these peace gestures-and who could scoff better than Sen. Pat Harrison, the jester from Mississippi? Grinning malignantly at the Republican side of the Chamber, he said: You've had political toothache ever since the November elections and now you are applying every remedy to ease your suffering and your pain." Then he looked at Sen. David Reed of Pennsylvania and said, "Mellon's man Friday"; turned to lame duck Senator Harreld with something about a "tall gusher from Oklahoma...
Senators laughed; they always laugh at Pat Harrison when they have nothing else to do. The first week of a Senate session is more vaudevillian than legislative. It helps the new Senators become acclimated. This session there are only four newly-elected ones: Arthur R. Gould of Maine, Republican, 6 ft. 2 in., healthy and 70; Harry B. Hawes of Missouri, Democrat, able fisherman and breeder of pedigreed hogs; David W. Stewart of Iowa, Republican, onetime Marine, portly, bald and 41; David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, Democrat, bachelor, with a deep, rich voice (he had been in the Senate before...
...Regardless of party, these Senators will soon learn to admire the Republican leader in the dark suit in the back row-Sen. Charles Curtis...