Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Taxation. Republicans planned to reduce taxation $300,000,000 by relieving principally the largest incomes. The Democrats with progressive Republican aid reduced them $450,000,000, with more benefits for the small taxpayer...
...Republican Rule, 1921. Politics depraved; one Secretary disgraced, another incapable, a third shockingly unfit. Veterans' Bureau filled with fraud and neglect. Oil leases made criminally; censure of those who exposed crime. A vote for Coolidge is a vote for chaos...
Reclamation. Homestead entrymen in reclamation projects on arid and semi-arid lands of the West have suffered from extravagant inefficiencies and mistakes of the Federal Government. The Reclamation Act of 1924, attached as a rider to the second deficiency bill, was eliminated by the Republican conferees in reporting the bill an hour before adjournment...
...planning to use the suit for political purposes, was a suggestion of which The New York World (Democratic) made first page material: that the Pure Oil Co., of which Beman G. Dawes is President, is a secondary defendant. Beman G. is a brother of Charles G. Dawes,* the Republican candidate for Vice President, and the World added that the latter is "commonly believed to be a heavy stockholder." The World admitted, near the end of the article, that this supposition was "not of public record." At any rate, the Department of Justice is certain to have stirred up a real...
...Republican State Senators of Rhode Island who fled their state following a Democratic filibuster and a literal gas attack (TIME, June 30) were discovered just over the border at Rutland, Mass. They fled, according to their own account, in fear for their lives. One heroic Republican remained behind, risking sudden death, in order to bring up the question of no quorum, if the Democratic minority tried to do anything without them?tried for example to call a Convention for a new State Constitution in place of the present Constitution which gives the country districts (Republican) disproportionately large representation...