Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strangely enough, when the Old Guard turned on Mr. Butler and picked the handiest candidate for the Vice Presidency?General Dawes?it did not greatly alter the busino-political spirit of the ticket. Dawes differs greatly from the Coolidge type: the Republican candidates may well be dubbed "Cautious Cal and Charging Charlie." Yet Mr. Dawes does not fly the flag of politics above the pennants of all other considerations. His very vigor is a challenge to the pure-political school of leaders...
...Chairman Butler of the Republican National Committee lunched with the President and gave his version of the Cleveland Convention...
...Saturday, a considerable group went aboard the Mayflower: Charles B. Warren, Ambassador to Mexico; Secretaries Hoover, Davis and Hughes, with Mrs. Hughes; Mrs. A. T. Hert, National Committeewoman from Kentucky; Charles D. Hilles, Republican leader from New York, and Mrs. Hilles; J. H. Roraback, National Committeeman from Connecticut; Senator Brandegee; Representative Burton of Ohio; Mr. James Burton Reynolds, Campaign Manager for Mr. Coolidge in 1920, and Mrs. Reynolds; Chairman Butler. They sailed on the Potomac for several hours and returned to the Capital to drop Messrs. Hoover, Davis and Mr. and Mrs. Hughes as well as Mrs. Hert...
...other papers were not much more enthusiastic. The Times, Democratic Independent, published editorials against him. The Bulletin (see Page 27), violently Democratic, joined the World in backing Governor Smith against McAdoo. The Republican papers evidently liked McAdoo least of all the possibilities. They hounded him on the Ku Klux Klan issue on which he would not commit himself...
Colonel John C. Coolidge, father of the President: "It was reported I sent to the Republican National Committee the following telegram in response to an invitation to be present at the Cleveland Convention: 'Telegram received. Thanks. I cannot see my way clear to go to the Convention.' Newspapers pointed out that this message was a few words longer than one which I wired to a Dinner Committee in Massachusetts that was engaged in promoting my son from Lieutenant Governor to Governor. In that message I said: 'Gentlemen: Can't come. Thank you.' " Luis Angel Firpo...