Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrats as a whole are apparently intent on taking the latter attitude. The situation is complicated for the Administration by the fact that many of its supporters are likely to take the same stand. Already last week eleven Republican Senators got together at luncheon to root for the farmer in a way that forebodes their voting for the Haugen bill or something similar. Among the eleven were several whose votes the Administration cannot normally count on: Norbeck, Norris, Howell, Johnson, McMaster, Frazier. But among them were also several normal regulars: Gooding, Watson, Cummins, Deneen, McNary. The first three...
...next morning after this information was imparted to the press, at 7:30, a select gathering of Congressional notables assembled at the White House about the breakfast table. There were Senators Curtis, Smoot, Wadsworth, McNary, Speaker Longworth and Representatives Madden, Tilson, Dickinson, Begg-the galaxy of Republican party managers and financial commanders in Congress- and the gist of what they had with their sausages and wheat cakes was the same as what the reporters had had without refreshments the day before...
...real trouble is not that the leaders are incompetent but that they are not competent enough. This is a year in which Senators and Representatives are elected. The Senators who this year come up for re-election were elected in 1920 in a Republican landslide. The Democrats among them are Underwood of Alabama, Caraway of Arkansas, Fletcher of Florida, George of Georgia, Broussard of Louisiana, Overman of North Carolina, Smith of South Carolina? all from the solid South. The Democrats have not a chance of losing one of their seats, but the Republicans have seats which may be lost...
...Property Custodian to its owners and compensating American claimants against Germany by a U. S. bond issue to be retired out of German reparations payments (TIME, Dec. 21, CABINET). Last week Representative Garner, the Democratic leader, attacked this bill and Secretary Mellon defended it. The New York Herald Tribune (Republican) promptly attacked the bill, saying that the German property should be sold to pay the American claims. It so happens that Mr. Mills is a large minority stockholder in the Herald Tribune.* He wrote a letter explaining his stand. The Herald Tribune promptly printed his letter in full...
...Irish Republican Party," literally translated "We Ourselves...