Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Progressive Republican, and he will make a good representative of the state. He proved his worth in North Dakota through his fight in his newspaper and on the public platform in the interest of the farmers and workers...
Several weeks ago Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire, Chairman of the Republican Senatorial Committee, told Governor Sorlie that, according to legal advice he had taken, the Governor did not have power to appoint a senator. Apparently the Governor accepted this opinion; only recently Mr. Sorlie called a special election for next June to fill the vacancy. North Dakota may now have three men filling one Senate post in the course of a single year: Mr. Nye serving from now to June; a second man elected next June to serve until March, 1927; and a third senator elected...
...this unusual procedure was simple; the Democrats on the Committee cooperated in drafting the bill instead of trying to oppose every proposition put forward by the majority. It is one of the few important bills in recent years aside from War measures, which the opposition party, whether Democratic or Republican, has not tried to use as an excuse for bedeviling its opponents. The credit for this achievement, so far as it goes, must be awarded to the Democrats, although the Administration forces .must share it in some degree for having made proposals which the Democrats considered it unwise or unsound...
...Boston for the first time in 18 years a Republican, Malcolm E. Nichols, was elected Mayor. There were ten candidates in the field (three Republicans and seven Democrats), and Mr. Nichols led a straggling field, with four Democrats in close order behind...
...Louisville, shortly before the election it was discovered that the Democratic candidate was a Klansman. He resigned and another candidate was put up, but Arthur A. Will, Republican candidate, was elected. A Democrat was elected to a vacant seat in Congress. Three men were killed in gun fights in the mountains...