Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Selden Palmer Spencer, Republican, and junior U. S. Senator from Missouri, died suddenly in Washington, D. C, after an apparently successful operation for hernia...
...thrown into jail unless he has the temerity to pile out of bed and stop it. . . . "This bill creates another new sin, an unenforceable law." In Lansing, Mich., Governor Alexander J. Groesbeck vetoed a bill for the appointment of a state poet laureate. Forgetful of the state poets of republican Athens, the Governor's historical knowledge led him to describe the bill as "a reversion to monarchical customs" which "has no place in a republican form of government...
...fourth day of his stay in Cape Town, the Union's Parliament invited him to dinner. Present at that dinner were some of the more curious of the true Boer diehards, whose republican sentiments had often resounded in both houses of the Legislature...
...Wilhelm Marx, ex-Chancellor, leader of the Catholic or Centre Party and the defeated Republican bloc Presidential candidate, sent his congratulations, accompanied by a long admonition to the President-elect to continue the Republican policies of economic restoration, democratic government, international reconciliation, peace, prosperity and reattainment of German world influence and position. The Field Marshal responded by thanking him for expressing the same sentiments that he would have expressed had Dr. Marx been elected, that he was proud to learn that Dr. Marx also stood for German solidarity and reconstruction and that he, too, was a man of principle above...
...graduated from Princeton and took a law degree from Columbia University. He entered politics, where his good stories, his oratory, his wit, his common sense and his legal ability won him popularity and admiration in New York. He ran for Governor of that state in 1912 on the Republican ticket when the party was split, and he had no chance of victory. He took his defeat philosophically, humorously. In 1922, he married for the first time. On Feb. 22, last, at the age of 62, he died of angina pectoris...