Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican majority in the Senate, long having refrained from taking any action on adherence to the World Court as proposed by Presidents Harding and Coolidge, began to look about for some form in which it could cast its action. It is soon to face a political campaign and the renewed assaults of the Democrats on Republican "do-nothing" foreign policy. It seemed imperative that some constructive Republican policy be pronounced. At this late part of the session there was small expectation of action, and in many ways action was undesirable, for a plan is often a more alluring thing...
...Senator Lodge mustered five of his Republican colleagues on the Foreign Relations Committee?Pepper, Brandegee, Lenroot, Moses, Wadsworth?and took them to the White House to speak to the President. What the President said, if he said anything, is not known. He had not applauded the plan for a new World Court proposed by Senator Lodge without consulting him (TIME, May 19). It was generally conceded that the Lodge Court was ready for its political obsequies, if it had not been stillborn. What was needed was a new scion, begotten or adopted with the President's assent, one in whom...
...much satisfaction at the White House, at least they went forth with the appearance of it. They appointed Senator George Wharton Pepper to discover a child fit for adoption and to propose a contract under which it would be entirely severed from its former parent and made the Republican Party's very...
...will not consider the President a "man of destiny," because their own birthdays come on the same date. The campaign managers claim, however, that in such cases the coincidence of celebrating their birthday at the same time with the President will make them even more loyal to the Republican leader...
...chosen group of law makers could be so blind, willfully or not, to the needs of the country at large, as to pass the bill; to party government, in that its principles, and with them its possible benefits, were thrown to the winds by the rank desertion of certain Republican congressmen...