Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said that, of the 10,000 small-town and rural newspapers, outside of the Solid South (where there isn't any contest) 7,500 at a fair estimate are strongly Republican and only 2,500 Democratic. He said also that in the largest cities, such as Chicago and New York the Democrats are either unrepresented in the press, or they are mild and fair partisans, whereas their Republican opposites are "much more militant...
...predigested propaganda is usually cast out. But among the less conscientious, the news from their own correspondents, and the headlines from their "headline" men are freely tinctured with partisanship. Examine the press of the cities which Mr. Kent chooses for his examples. In Chicago the omnipotent Tribune is violently Republican. The News is somewhat less so, the Post still less, The Journal of Commerce (probably the cleanest newspaper of the lot) has the natural Republican leaning of most business publications. Then there are the Hearst papers-the Herald and Examiner (morning) and American (evening). Mr. Kent classes them as anti...
...Manhattan, Mr. Kent points out two Democratic papers-the Times and the World. He declares that in their headlines and news they are "scrupulously fair" and "rigidly nonpartisan" and "on the other hand, certain hidebound Republican organs give to many of their dispatches a heavy Coolidge flavor and lose no chance to place the Davis candidacy in a bad light." This is hyperbole. These "hidebound Republican organs" refer chiefly to Frank Munsey's Sun, Ogden Reid's Pier Herald-Tribune, and Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis' Post. In the degree of news partisanship shown there is probably little...
...glare, carrying on his arm an ancient gentleman, smoking a stogie, whom the light disclosed as Joseph G. Cannon. After a prayer had been rendered, Uncle Joe said a few mellifluous words. Former Representative Albert Jefferis, of Nebraska, then came forward to tell General Dawes that last June the Republican National Convention had nominated him for Vice President. Mr. Dawes gave his answer in his first sentence...
...accept the nomination of the Republican Party for the office of Vice President, of which you now formally notify...