Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cautious Reed Smoot, most eminent Republican financier in the Senate, said that not more than a 10% reduction was advisable...
...days later, President Coolidge made his official pronouncement on the election: 1) The only nation-wide election was in the contest for the House of Representatives, and there the Republicans successfully defended their majority; 2) The Senate elections were held in only a few more than one-third of the states, were local in their issues, and hence were no repudiation of the Administration: 3) Defeated Senator William M. Butler of Massachusetts would be urged to continue his duties as Chairman of the Republican National Committee; in fact, he could give it more attention, now that he had done with...
Although unable to organize the Senate and appoint its majority committees, the Democrats plus Farmer-Laborite Henrik Shipstead plus any one of the half dozen Republican insurgents will be able to control all legislation. And, such being the case, it seems probable that the two slush-tainted Republican Senators-elect, Frank L. Smith of Illinois and William S. Vare of Pennsylvania, will not be seated...
...York was found the biggest surprise of the election. Senator James W. Wadsworth Jr., Republican Wet, heretofore regarded almost as much of a New York institution as Governor Smith, came down to the Bronx with a plurality of 250,000. There he met onetime Justice Robert F. Wagner, Democrat, coming up from Brooklyn and the "East Side" with a plurality of 380,000. Mr. Wagner was elected. The new Senator was once a newsboy on the lower East Side with an extraordinarily keen mind and a lust for law. His untarnished reputation on the bench and the tarnished humanity...
...against than sinning--discovered that on occasion moral turpitude could be made an admirable slogan for immigration authorities. The latest guest unwelcome to official United States is Mme. Alexandra Kollantay, whose morals may be as pure as snow but whose politics are not a accordance with those of the Republican administration. In spite of the fact that she does not propose to linger here being on her way to take up her duties as Soviet Minister to Mexico--Secretary Kellog has denied her admittance in accordance with his now well-known prerogative...