Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the Senate last week ill winds whined and whistled for the Hoover administration. Consideration of the farm relief bill drew to a close. The Senate's Republican Leader, Senator Watson of Indiana, appeared on the floor in mourning. "When I go to a funeral, I dress for it," he explained with a liverish smile...
...higher rates (TIME, March 25). He had secured duties on brick and cement, had permanently pegged pig iron at $1.12½ per ton. But he still sounded dissatisfied when he said: "The few raises fall short of meeting the requirements ... of Pennsylvania's industries along lines indicated in the Republican platform adopted at Kansas City." He intimated that provisions for valuation (see below) were "scandalous." Philadelphia upholstery and drapery manufacturers flayed a 10% duty increase accorded them as "wholly inadequate...
...cotton planters as their reason for voting an unDemocratic subsidy, which is what the debenture plan amounts to. But Northern, city Democrats could give as their only reason a partisan desire to put President Hoover in a hole. As in 1924, they found themselves playing catspaw for the Progressive Republicans. New York's Copeland, for example, said he would vote for the debenture plan, but "hold his nose" while he did so. Shifter Nye. North Dakota's Nye (Progressive) had declared against the debenture plan. Last week, under threats of political reprisals from his state, he said...
Democratic deficits customarily have been allowed to run over until the eve of the following campaign, thus strangling with debt all inter-election activity. Even the two-million-dollar Republican deficit after the Harding election was not liquidated until 1923, and then only by dubious collections and split...
...evil effects of the Jones Act] could be avoided if the party in power would remember that it was elected on the Republican ticket, and not on the prohibition ticket...