Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Democratic Testimony. The week previous, the Committee had taken Republican and Third Party testimony. To round out its survey, the Committee, last week, heard the testimony of Clem L. Shaver, Chairman, and James W. Gerard, Treasurer, of the Democratic National Committee. These gentlemen averred that their total budget added into the neighborhood of $750,000 of which $549,000 had been contributed by some 4,000 persons...
Witnesses. Came four subpoenaed Pennsylvanians before the Committee to bear witness to Republican finance in their state. Came also one T. V. O'Connor, Chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, subpoenaed by the Committee out of curiosity aroused by a statement of his that Soviet Russian money had filtered into the U. S. via Mexico to bolster the LaFollette candidacy...
...Grundy explained: "Gratitude for wonderful opportunities this country has enjoyed through the beneficent legislation of the Republican Party...
...hunters had been asked to sniff about for two Republican funds in addition to the regular Party budget ?one fund the care of bankers, the other of manufacturers and business men. Mr. Grundy vowed ignorance of such funds. So did the other three Pennsylvanians, one Nathan T. Folwell (dress goods), Samuel M. Vauclain (Baldwin locomotives), Edward T. Stotesbury (banks) ; but Mr. Vauclain became involved in an explanation of a $10,000 contribution which his company had made to an organization (The American Economic Institute) whose frankly admitted aim was " to protect the railroads against improper legislation...
...will be without a regularly elected chief executive when President Coolidge's term expires at noon tomorrow." Coming on top of the business depression and winter of unemployment . . . Government chaos has, wrought a general consternation. . . . "President Coolidge, at this hour, is meeting with members of his Cabinet and Republican, Democratic and Third Party leaders in a last effort to obtain a tripartisan agreement on the unusual steps that it now seems necessary to take in order to provide for the Presidential succession...