Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House had overriden. But the game was not over. The original vote in the House had been 355 to 54. Following the veto 26 Republicans, including majority leader Nicholas Longworth and Martin B. Madden of Illinois had changed sides to vote against the bonus. Two Democrats had done likewise. The Senate. Then the matter was up to the Senate. If the Senate clung to its original division the bonus would be law. If the President's veto had won nine Senators away from the bill, the bonus would be defeated. The country waited with polite attention...
...Reduction Bill went into joint conference. The conference committee decided to hold its sessions in secret-no doubt wisely. There were a great many delicate questions to be disposed of. The two provisions, in the Senate version of the bill, which are most irritating to regular Republicans-which are likely to evoke a Presidential veto if they are finally adopted are: 1) the publicity of tax returns and 2) the graduated tax on undistributed profits of corporations. The provisions were inserted by the combination of Democrats and Republican insurgents in the Senate. However, when it came to appointing members...
...Christian names (Mathew Mansfield) by the initials "M. M.," is Senator from the State of West Virginia, a state which breeds an eloquence as odorous as the honey of the Hybla* bees. What is more, he is a Democrat and nothing loathe to attack in the Senate the Republican President who vetoed (TIME, May 12) the Bursum pension bill: "I arise to charge the President of the United States with having become a lobbyist. As such, his activities are being carried on at the breakfast table of the White House, where his power ful and penetrating propaganda is being delivered...
...Breslau another "Day" had been planned for May 18. A large military parade and an unveiling ceremony were to be the central figures. Republican War Veterans promised counter demonstrations; excitement was expected. The Prussian Government prohibited the meeting...
That was the past week's Sun Yat-Sen news from China, as told by newspaper headlines. Dr. Sun, "George Washington of the Far East," is one of the outstanding figures of Republican China. In 1911, he took a leading part in overthrowing the ancient Monarchy, became a Provisional President of the Chinese Republic. Since those days, however, he has been considered one of the main obstacles to the unification of China. Born in 1866, Sun became a doctor of medicine in 1892, and from that year began his intensive interest in politics. The year 1896 found the young...