Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Steering Committee of the Senate is an unofficial body of the majority party which decides what bills out of the mass presented shall occupy the time of that august body. Last week, the Republican Steering Committee met and decided tentatively...
Senator Ball of Delaware, who is a physician by profession, will retire from the Senate next March, because another Republican beat him in the primaries. Nevertheless, he has a kind thought for the friends he leaves behind-a thought which he has translated into a bill to increase their salaries. His proposed salaries: Vice President. .$25,000 (now $12,000) Speaker of the House 15,000 (now $12,000) Cabinet Members 18,000 (now $12,000) Chief Justice 21,000 (now $15,000) Associate Justices. 20,000 (now $14,500) Senators 12,000 (now $ 7,500) Representatives...
...last session, it was a rare day, barring Sundays, when the Alabaman did not make at least a 20-minute oration, or perhaps two such or maybe one of an hour and a half's duration. His subject ? whatever bill was on the floor ? was almost invariably Republican corruption. Sometimes his col leagues left the floor, sometimes the press gallery was vacant, and some times, too, the other galleries emptied; but he always had for his audience the presiding officer and the clerks who scribbled the minutes. On them he turned the scorching eloquence of his denunciation...
...Administration. He called on the President and, by inference, he got a substantial endorsement of his plans. That the Administration was so favorably im-pressed was in itself atribute to the Alabama Senator. His tact, h!s pleasant personality, his ability long ago won him the respect of his Republican opponents. His 20 years of service in the House, culminating in his leadership in that body, his nine years in the Senate have won him a large place even in Republican eyes. Not so brilliant as Harrison, nor so brilliant as Heflin, not so witty as Caraway, nor so downright...
...those sniffers who insist that the politician and the intellectual are at opposite poles of humanity, the nominations for the approaching senatorial election in Connecticut will come as a severe shock. The Republican nominee is Professor Bingham of Yale, whose title is almost a guarantee of his mental superiority. The Democratic nomince is Hamilton Holt, editor of the Independent. Neither of them is a mere theorist, however, for they have both engaged enthusiastically in the rough and tumble of political controversies...