Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...financier, looking upon politics, are inclined to express surprise when they see the figure of Senator Borah turning his back on the Administration, while the supporters of the Administration go cordially to shake his hand. And the lay observer is inclined to ask: "Is this the Republican without a party...
...partisan cartoonist, not curious but bitter, depicts the Republican Covered Wagon just as it has crossed Recent Election River. The perplexed Elephant turns to Driver Cal, asking: "Now, where's that half-breed guide of ours gone ?" And Cal replies : "Search me ! He was in the wagon until we got safely across the river." But the trenchant pen of the cartoonist* discovers the "half-breed guide"-and what does he wear but the face of Mr. Borah?-hiding behind the brush and whispering to the prowling savages who wear insurgent feathers in their topknots...
...Borah is "close" to the White House. Mr. Coolidge wanted nothing more than to have him on the Republican ticket for the office of Vice President. The party organization does not tread on his toes for irregularity. Rather, he is looked...
...same qualities make him "irregular." They make him a great asset to whatever cause he espouses because his fighting is fearless and above ordinary politics. He was one of the 12 Republican Senators who voted against the Bonus Bill last year, one of the 17 who voted to sustain the President's veto. He was one of the three Senators to vote against the Postal Pay Bill in its original form. He voted also to sustain the veto of that bill and against the bill which passed a few weeks ago, providing postal pay and rate increases...
...others in the Senate. That is the tacit and sometimes spoken opinion which his colleagues have formed of him and doubtless it is the most reliable. So they let him stand in a place apart and he does as he wills without criticism from his fellows in the Republican Party...