Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate to criticize. The President's move was so unexpected that Democrat Harrison was forced to extemporize a trifle uncertainly. First he heavily satirized the appointment as being cheap politics; it was designed, said he, solely to remove Mr. Thompson from Ohio politics where there are several Republican candidates for Governor. Satire having failed to produce heat, the Senator intimated that Mr. Thompson might be inclined to interest himself in the exploitation of the island (rubber, etc.) rather than in the welfare of the islanders. Here Senator Moses of New Hampshire quietly remarked that, if Senator Harrison was so interested...
When the present session of Congress opened, the same combination of Democrats (dissatisfied because Mr. Woodlock is a Democrat who often votes Republican) and Radicals seemed likely to prevent Mr. Woodlock's permanent appointment. And other opposition appeared. It came from solid Republican Pennsylvania, especially from active Senator Reed, who charged that his state, through which runs the Pennsylvania Railroad, lacked representation on the Interstate Commerce Commission, had not received a square deal...
...question to a national referendum. In Wisconsin, the Butter Makers Association launched a campaign to line up all dairymen on the dry side, on the ground that a dry U. S. would spend millions more on milk than a wet U. S. In New York, the supposedly dry Republican majority of the Assembly was broken and the enforcement act failed to pass...
During the last week, Mr. Baker has been in the East. Soon he will head for Nevada, to open his campaign to wrest the Senate seat from Republican Senator Oddie, whose term is expiring...
Died. Konstantin Fehrenbach, 74, fifth Chancellor of the German Reich, President of the Reichstag under the imperial regime, a statesman of the first rank in both imperial and republican affairs; at Berlin, of pneumonia...