Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remedies are called for. ¶ Governor Len Small of Illinois called to request the President to favor larger appropriations to aid the states in eliminating bovine tuberculosis, although the President is known to be opposed in principle to Federal aid for states. ¶ Senator Arthur R. Robinson, newly appointed Republican Senator from Indiana (succeeding the late Mr. Ralston), called to pay his respects...
Then came 1922. There was a split in the regular Republican machine, and Mr. Pinchot-who would believe it?-was elected Governor. He gave Pennsylvania a budget system, trimmed the sails of expenditure and set out to put the State on a sound financial basis. He reorganized the State Government and cut the number of departments and bureaus from more than 100 to 18. He also went out to enforce prohibition...
...Branscomb of Anniston, Ala., regarding the possibility of the Democrats' nominating a wet for the Presidency: "My grandfather and my father were Democrats, and if I should vote the Republican ticket they might turn in their graves, but I would do it if the northern Democrats should betray the cause for which we have suffered...
Harold E. ("Red") Grange, an Illinois University footballer, will be a Congressman if certain of his friends who like to see him run have their way. Last week they circulated a petition to put him on the Republican primary ballot as candidate for Congressman-at-large. If nominated next April he might be elected next November, and in December, 1927, when the next Congress will probably meet, he would be only six months under the minimum age for Congressmen (25 years...
...champion his faith in no faith. He studied law, was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1857. In the Civil War he raised a regiment of cavalry, used in his recruiting speeches a natural eloquence unsurpassed in his generation. But it was not until his speech in the Republican Convention of 1876 that he came to national fame as an orator...