Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greybeard Republican strategists considered long. They had to select a temporary chairman for their National Convention. With the position goes the honor, the duty of making the keynote speech. The eloquence of Charles E. Hughes was tempting. But there was a greater consideration: The West, or at least the Middle West ought to be recognized. So the choice fell to Theodore Elijah Burton, of Ohio, now Representative, onetime Senator (TIME, April 21). Mr. Burton is not spectacular but he is substantial, honest- in keeping with this year's Republican virtues...
Prosperity During Republican Control...
...convincingly. "Under President Harding a Budget Bureau was created to see that each department of the government spent no more than it actually needed. The new bureau submitted estimates showing how much each required. This resulted in a $2,000,000,000 cut in the expenses. Thus since the Republican government took office, a real program of economy has been established...
...real issue of the Republican Party in connection with taxes, which have so helped to pay this, is that we believe in the principle of taxing people in accordance with their ability to pay. So we fix a rate of maximum productivity and minimum disturbance. It is really an issue of honest taxation against dishonest taxation. Our opponents play up a lot to the poor and downcast and against the rich, but they really leave the door wide open to let the rich man through. Our plan of taxation is not so much a question of who pays the taxes...
...Mills next turned to the third point in the record of the Republican Party, namely the protective system. "Everything said against the tariff of 1921 has proved absolutely false. Imports have not ceased, and consequently exports have not ceased. We rather find that the imports increased, during the first 17 months, 42 per cent and the exports 12 per cent. Furthermore, farmers are not suffering because of the protective tariff as was predicted. Compared with their condition in 1920 and 1921, when it his rock bottom under the old tariff their condition is excellent...