Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reference to the 13 Republican Senators who helped to vote the Debenture Plan into the bill against the wishes of President Hoover...
...Republican politicians were anticipating the 1930 census with relish when the Senate last fortnight voted 42 to 37 to put all census employes under Civil Service. This proposal, sponsored by New York's Senator Wagner, rallied his Democratic colleagues and enough insurgent Republicans to wreck, at least temporarily, the G. O. P.'s delight in census legislation...
Said Senator Blease: "The Civil Service is the most damnable, the most iniquitous system ever perpetrated upon a free country. I believe to the victors belong the spoils. ... If North Carolina, Virginia, Texas and Florida want to go Republican, let them have Republican census-takers. ... If that is the company they want to keep and they happen to get up with fleas on 'em, let 'em bite...
Three days after President Hoover had pledged his administration to the Constitution in general and the 18th Amendment in particular, Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin resigned as New York's Republican National Committeewoman. Her reason: "I want to devote my untrammeled efforts toward working for a change in the Prohibition law." Her friends awaited developments, well knowing that the slim, smiling, brown-eyed wife of Manhattan Banker Sabin did not drop, without finishing, what she took up. Last week came some developments...
...included: Mrs Pierre Samuel du Pont (Delaware), Mrs. Ralph Martin Shaw (Illinois), Mrs. Meredith Nicholson (Indiana), Mrs. Lothrop Ames (Massachusetts), Mrs. Edward Stephen Harkness (New York), Miss Agnes Repplier (Pennsylvania), Mrs. Paul Fitz Simons (Rhode Island), Mrs. George Orvis (Vermont). Like Mrs. Sabin, Mrs. Orvis had left the Republican National Committee to be free to fight Prohibition...