Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four great press associations?United, Associated, Universal, International?is allowed the privilege of the Senate floor. Chairman Moses of the Rules Committee, by way of punishment, ordered this privilege for the United Press suspended. Wisconsin's Senator La Follette, eager to press the issue to the maximum discomfort of Republican Conservatives, pointed out that the Senate rules granted no floor privileges to any pressmen. When Senator La Follette later saw Fraser Edwards of the Universal Service weaving industriously about the floor, he made a point of order against his presence. Vice President Curtis ruled Mr. Edwards off the floor...
Under the iron hand of the Republican majority, the Tariff Bill was rounded into shape for final passage by the House last week. It was not a pretty sight for soft-hearted political theorists. But that large sector of U. S. citizens which exalts the House over the Senate, which praises its "businesslike" method of legislative procedure, glowed with fresh admiration as it observed a tight little political autocracy make the fewest necessary concessions to muster a party majority behind its economic will and then, under a special rule, impel the measure through to passage...
Shut & Locked. Republican members...
...Minnesota "Pudge" Heffelfinger turned, at first, to politics as an avocation.* He began by attending Republican National Conventions as a delegate first in 1904 to help nominate his friend Theodore Roosevelt, again in 1908 to nominate Taft and again in 1912 when he was made
...Washington, hopeful of Rusher Heffelfinger's success at the polls, were his great and good Yale friends, Secretary of State Stimson (1888) and Republican House Leader Tilson (1891), who fondly recall that their college was founded for service "to Church and State...