Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fordney-McCumber Tariff. "I charge the Republican Party with this corruption in office. I charge it also with favoritism in legislation. In the passage of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act, imposing the highest rates and duties in the tariff history of the Nation, there was an unblushing return to the evil days of rewarding party support and political contributions with legislative favors. . . . For every dollar that this statute has drawn into the treasury of the United States it has diverted five from the pocket of the consumer into the pockets of the favored...
...Republican Discord. "The Executive proposes adherence to the existing World Court. The request falls on dull ears. The Executive demands the Mellon bill and members of his party in both houses of Congress, regular and insurgent, hasten to reject it. He disapproves the Adjusted Compensation Act but Congress reenacts it. Congress passes a measure granting to postal employes an increase in their meager salaries; the President disapproves it. He protests against the restriction on Japanese immigration; Congress adopts it. Whenever before did a party in control of the Executive and of a majority in both houses of Congress present...
Foreign Policy. "Not only have the Executive recommendations for adherence to the World Court, sanctioned as they are by long American tradition and example, been flouted and ignored, but no evidence is in sight that the Republican Party as now constituted can frame and carry to its conclusion any definite and consistent foreign policy. The Washington Conference alone aside, and that of more than doubtful value, what single contribution has the United States of America, as an organized nation among nations, made to world peace in the last four years...
LaFollette Progressives. "There remains the candidacy of Robert M. La Follette and Burton K. Wheeler?the first an independent Republican, the second an independent Democrat, running as such...
...Opposition asks, for instance, that I resign as head of the Fascist Party, which is "preposterous." If facts are facts and not illusions, it would appear that in Republican France the head of the State is also the head of the radical Socialist Party; that in superdemocratic England MacDonald is head of the State and also head of the Labor Party, so much so that he did not hesitate to attend a Parliamentary and anti-Fascist meeting in the Houses of Parliament. I have never reached such extremes, and the Grand Council of Fascism has never-I repeat, never-discussed...