Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus did the Tariff Bill come last week to the Senate. The House had passed it the day before. Clerks stamped the precious copy, entered its presence and pedigree in great journals, shuttled it away to the Senate Finance Committee where Chairman Reed Smoot and other Republican members prepared to lay rough and critical hands upon...
...passage of the bill in the House occurred precisely as the Republican leaders had planned. Their amendments, and only theirs, were adopted. Minority Leader John Nance Garner of Texas, under the rules, was permitted but a single motion. He moved to recommit the bill to the Ways & Means Committee with instructions to eliminate the flexible provision which gave new and enlarged powers to the President to alter duties. This issue was not Mr. Garner's own. It belonged primarily to Republican Congressman James Montgomery Beck of Pennsylvania who last fortnight had flayed the doubtful constitutionality of this provision (TIME...
...vote, with 264 members approving the bill, 147 voting against it. Small but significant were the breaks in party lines. Twenty Democrats, mostly from Florida (which got higher duties on fresh vegetables and fruit) and Louisiana (which got a higher duty on sugar) sidled over to vote with the Republican majority. Twelve Republicans joined the Democratic opposition. Most of them were midWest insurgents. One of them was an eastern regular-Philadelphia's Beck...
...high duties of this bill, and more. To defy them involved a man-sized political risk, even for a constitutionalist like Mr. Beck. The Philadelphia Congressman declared the whole policy of the extra session a "mistake," insisted that he had voted his "personal convictions," left his more orthodox Republican colleagues thoroughly startled by his independence, as he departed to Atlanta to tell the Georgia Bar Association that, like the Parthenon, the constitution was "still beautiful in its ruins...
Chester Alan Arthur Jr., 28, of Santa Barbara, Cal., grandson of the late Republican President of the U. S., is a sailor on a freighter, intends to write a nautical novel. Last week, on shore leave in Philadelphia, he said he had supported Alfred Emanuel Smith in the recent election, had once been jailed in Boston for ballyhooing the Sinn Fein movement...