Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known, last fall, that Mr. Gillett was to be elevated to the Senate? Why else did an atramental cloud of controversy settle over the struggle, political cuttlefish and squid belch their inky exudation over the contest? Why else did Madden (Chairman of the all-powerful Appropriations Committee) and Longworth (Republican Floor Leader) join fiercely in the issue of their ambitions? Martin B. Madden, white-haired and 70, quarryman by profession (the profession which cost him a leg and sent him into politics), veteran in the political arena (as early as 1897, he made an unsuccessful attempt to gain a Senate...
...made Floor Leader did he gain any general reputation of his own. "Speaker Longworth" will give him another claim to distinction on his own account. It will give him a name of his own, in which he may have hope of becoming a Senator from Ohio. Following the Republican caucus, the Democrats of the House held their caucus likewise. Finis J. Garrett was named as Democratic candidate for Speaker. There is little hope, of course, that he may attain the office, and his nomination is, in fact, equivalent to reelection as minority Floor Leader...
...Hanna of Ohio (TIME, Feb. 18, 1923). His mother, Katharine Medill, had planned that he should become publisher of the Tribune and his brother Robert R. should go into public life. So they began. Medill served with the Tribune for some time; but when Theodore Roosevelt broke from the Republican ranks in 1912, Medill cast his lot with the Progressive Party- and doing so was elected to the State House of Representatives. Two years later, he was reflected, and about at that time resigned his post on the Progressive National Commitee. In 1916, he was back in the Republican Party...
Charles S. Deneen,* ex-Governor of Illinois, contested, last summer, in the Republican primaries for Senator in Illinois. He defeated his opponent, Senator Medill McCormick, and was subsequently elected to the latter's seat. Less than a week before the close of his term, Mr. McCormick died (see above). Republican Floor Leader Senator Curtis communicated post haste with Governor Len Small of Illinois- every Republican vote was needed on the floor of the Senate in the closing rush of legislation. Promptly Governor Small appointed Mr. Deneen to fill out the five remaining days of Mr. McCormick's term...
General Patrick, genial Chief of the Army Air Service, in a speech made before the National Republican Club in Manhattan, remarked...