Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican Senator George W. Norris, whose Nebraskan voice no mind but his own can control, swung into Pennsylvania, campaigned for William Bauchop Wilson, onetime (1913-21) Secretary of Labor and now Democratic candidate for the Senate. Senator Norris was not so much for Mr. Wilson, able Wilson though he is, as against Congressman William S. Vare, winner in the great Republican slush-fund primary of last May. Piqued, Republican Manager William L. Mellon, nephew of the Secretary of the Treasury, called upon Senator Norris to go back home, to leave Keystoners to attend to their own business. Democrats deemed this...
...tide of Republican scandal foamed up last week and engulfed Germany's greatest post-War soldier, Hans von Seeckt, "The Man with the Iron Monocle." He it is who has forged the new German military machine as General der Infanterie und Chef der Heeresleitung des Reichswehr. For months he has been the anathema of the Allied Council of Ambassadors which has demanded his resignation times without number. Until last week his rockfounded army prestige made his position unassailable...
Explosion. Not until last week did Republican and Communist newsorgans discover and commence to flay the indiscretion of General von Seeckt. Most lamentably Defense Minister Gessler, ignorant of the General's peccadillo, denied publicly what proved to be the truth: that Prince Wilhelm served with the "Hohenzollern Ninth" during the recent maneuvers...
James E. ("Big Jim") Watson, Republican Senator from Indiana: "Last week my name was tossed about in newspaper headlines because of two events. Neither one of them pleased me. I was linked with the sensational K. K. K. investigations in Indiana, a fact which my opponents say will damage my chances for re-election to the Senate. Then I was injured in an automobile accident near Indianapolis. My car went into a ditch to save crashing into another machine. I received a scalp wound which it took ten stitches to close, a sprained wrist and ankle, many bruises. I will...
Congressman Theodore Elijah Burton of Ohio: "Speaking before the Republican Women of Cleveland I flayed the U. S. people for being 'demoralized' where national affairs are concerned and devoting their whole attention to Bud Stillman's girl, 'Peaches'* Browning, Jack Dempsey and the world series. Said I: 'I consider calling that little hussy, "Peaches," a reflection on peach dishes or brandy, and the less said about her husband the better. There is no fool like an old fool. But let us dismiss this trivial gossip and consider subjects of importance to the nation...