Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Capper's senior and colleague is Charles Curtis, the Republican leader, and although as the junior Senator from Kansas Mr. Capper occupies no such important post, his importance has swelled in the political firmament as the resentment of corn farmers in the West (TIME, Jan. 4, 11) has been more and more clearly disclosed at the Capital during the last few days...
...that the Republican members of the Senatorial finance committee have graciously allowed their Democratic colleagues to amend the original measure, the tax-reduction bill seems destined for smooth sailing in the upper chamber. For, despite the fact that the new tax schedule embodies all the essentials of the unsuccessful Mellon plan of last session, there is no organized opposition to its passage...
...denouement revealed, however, that these virtuous Senators, the militant interpreters of the Constitution, were not thinking about the Constitution at all. Some of them were thinking about the World Court, and some about the Republican administration and some about the new tax bill. Those who liked all these things, lost; and those who did not, won. The score was 41-39. Then the Senators put their well-worn, eighteenth-century, uniforms of strict constructionists and loose constructionists away, where they may be ready to hand for the next sham battle--Constitutionally speaking...
Last week the onslaught on the tariff law began. Senator Capper (Republican) declared outright that it must be modified to benefit the farmer. Senator Wheeler, Representative Rainey, ex-Senator Walsh of Massachusetts (Democrats) joined the fray for lower tariffs. And in its midst complaints against the tariff law per se were made by others. Dr. F. W. Taussig of Harvard, the first Chairman of the Tariff Commission, an eminent economist and writer, attacked the use of the Commission for partisan purpose. He told a gathering of economists in Manhattan: "The temptation will always be present...
...Labor Party in America is not generally recognized in England," he said, "and at present the two do not go hand in hand, as has been often stated. The chief difficulty I find with American politics, is understanding the difference between the aims of the Republican and Democratic Parties...