Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Utah. He talks more than any other Senator. He has something learned to say on almost every subject, but he does not carry many votes with him. That good looking, young-looking fellow just to your left-he is David Reed, a cousin of the other Reed but a Republican. He is rising fast, a staunch supporter of the Administration...
...There is Norris. He is a Progressive Republican, perhaps the ablest of the insurgent group-now that LaFollette is dead. He keeps the regulars hopping. That dark, short young man over there, immaculately dressed, is young LaFollette who succeeded his father. He is a newcomer in the Senate; so he has not done much...
...That pair-you see them?-the one with the dropping mustaches is Curtis,* Republican leader. He came years ago from Kansas, with Indian blood in him. You seldom hear from him. He is all the time behind the scenes patching up compromises, pleasing people. The tall thin man next to him with the long neck is Smoot-the other Mormon. He is chairman of the Finance Committee. He speaks with a soft voice and retires from the outworks when somebody sets up an outcry. That third man, going up to them, looks like a. prosperous business...
...whole situation is based on hypothesis. If a bill of the Haugen type is passed, the President will have the alternative of vetoing it. If farm depression continues, Mr. Lowden (staunch Republican with eyes to the West) and whatever Democrats and Republicans stood for the Haugen bill, will have a first-rate issue in 1928. By contrary, if the President should approve such a bill, the Government would probably get into financial hot water before...
...France. Representative Hamilton Fish of New York (onetime officer of the 93rd Division) was its sponsor. Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland a member of the Battle Monuments Commission urged that it was unwise for the House to begin designating specific monuments. The Democrats in general joined him (a Republican) in opposition, protesting that they were not raising a race question, but supporting a principle. But the House, in acting mood, could not be deterred, passed the bill...