Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wisconsin. In 1901, he was elected Governor of that state. He broke the corrupt organization that had ruled the state, and since then has dominated Wisconsin politics. In 1905, he resigned to become U. S. Senator. In 1908, he had 25 votes for the nomination for President in the Republican Convention. In 1912, he might well have run independently for President if his rival, Roosevelt, had not done so. That being the case, he chose to stay in the "regular" organization as an irregular. In 1917, he voted against the War, and was temporarily ostracized. He started the investigation which...
...death of LaFollette improves Lenroot's chances. It improves regular Republican chances in the northwest?so it seems?unless the Democrats manage to come back to the lands which they have long abandoned...
...that the body of Senator LaFollette, leader of the Republican Insurgents in the Senate, was carried to his grave in Wisconsin, Senator Edwin Fremont Ladd, one of the pillars of the insurgent group, died in the city of Baltimore. With hardly more than one sweep of his famed scythe, Death had taken two of the leaders of the radical group...
Died. Emanuel Lorenz Philipp, 64, onetime (1915-21) Governor of Wisconsin, Republican and arch enemy of the late Senator LaFollette; in Milwaukee of a heart attack. In 1908, he sued McClure's Magazine for $100,000 for libel in publishing articles accusing him of lobbying and receiving improper commissions from a railroad. He won a verdict...
...German marine flag is the same as the Imperial German, with the republican colors in the top left-hand corner...