Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President addressed several thousand delegates to the Retail Druggists' Convention, at the White House grounds; Cardinal O'Connell lunched at the White House; Senator Moses, Chairman of the Republican Senatorial Committee, reported that all was well for the Republicans in this year's Senatorial elections? but there must be no overconfidence...
...list is approximately correct except that the League of Nations probably belongs as much, or more, in the list of Democratic taboos as in the Republican list. The League helped to lose a principal election for the Democrats-and that only about four years...
...Smith to run for reelection because it would strengthen their rather dubious chances of carrying New York with its 45 votes in the Electoral College. Naturally, Tammany, the local Democratic organization, wanted Smith to run, to strengthen their local ticket which they feared might go down in a national Republican landslide. But Smith did not want to run. That was natural because he had the Presidential bee in his derby hat. He had nothing to gain by running this year, when he might be defeated as he was in 1920; although even in that Republican year he ran far ahead...
This decision was known when the Republican Convention assembled at Rochester. Senator James W. Wadsworth held the reins that controlled it. A man named Machold, Republican Speaker in the State Assembly and arch-opponent of Smith, was one of the prominent candidates for the Republican nomination for Governor. Almost at the last minute he withdrew. The Wadsworth machine, with neatly oiled precision, nominated the man whom Wadsworth had picked in advance. He was chosen on the first ballot without the slightest excitement. It was all cut and dried. Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, son of the late President...
...chosen to sit on the jury which awarded Edward W. Bok's peace prize. Because of it, a score of other things have fallen his way. He was in the Roosevelt Progressive Movement from 1912 to 1916, but nominally he is still Republican?not a regular, just a Republican. He turns the shafts of his humor on friend and foe alike; he speaks what he thinks; and so he is William Allen White of Emporia, Editor of the Emporia Gazette...