Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge received an official call from the Democratic National Committeeman of Massachusetts, Mayor Edward W. Quinn of Cambridge, where the President is to speak on July 3. An official letter of "welcome to Massachusetts" came from Governor Fuller. The President accepted an invitation to attend a meeeting of Republican editors at Lake Attitash, and politely suggested that Senator Butler (and Governor Fuller) also be invited?an effort to get Senator Butler into favor with the followers of the late Senator Lodge, who did not like the manner in which the Butler machine ran rough shod over Mr. Lodge...
...where every speaker speaks directly to the issue, which it is almost impossible to break up by rule. Such a filibuster was conducted in the last session of the 65th Congress in 1918-19 in order to prevent the passage of revenue bills by the Democrats until the new Republican Congress should come into office "No one could have said that the ensuing debate was not legitimate. It transcended no rule of relevancy, and it proceeded to the very eve of adjournment. Then, early in the evening of March third, the filibuster emerged from its concealment, and the three Senators...
...Turkey. The Government announced that it intended to take disciplinary measures against the officers. General Kondylis, the War Minister, prepared to take energetic action to restore the Army's discipline. General Pangalos answered by contributing a statement to the Politcia, Athens journal: "Every hair on the heads of the Republican officers which may be interfered with will be paid for by the heads of Venizelists [Government Party].' It is known that I never threaten in vain. I now threaten." And he was as good as his word...
...political pie. This in itself was never a serious factor, but it entailed some friction and militated against political security at a time when calm was the one thing Greece needed. But the rise of ambitious soldiers like General Pangalos, who has been considered, even in Republican circles, as an adventurer with the Army behind him, was the chief cause of agitation. King Georgos was sent on an enforced vacation pending a plebiscite on the future status of Greece (TIME, Dec. 31, 1923). A few months later, the Greeks, who had not two years before given overwhelming proof of their...
...Rumania, the King's wife was a daughter of the King and Queen of Rumania and one of the King's brothers-in-law was the King of Yugo-Slavia. Queen Marie of Rumania had cleverly set the stage for strong Balkan alliance. It was natural, after the republican "doings" in Greece, that the friendship of Yugo-Slavia and Greece cooled and the Balkan alliance received a severe set-back...