Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representative Frederick N. Zihlman, Republican of Maryland, rose and declared: "You can well understand the humiliation that I have felt at the insinuations which have been made against my name and character. Those of you who have served here with me know that I am no master of eloquence and it would be absolutely impossible for me to move you by any eloquent appeal...
...telegrams sent by President Coolidge to Mr. McLean at Palm Beach. One said: "Prescott is away. Advise Slemp with whom I shall confer. Acknowledge." According to announcement from the White House, the President had wished to see some one on political matters in the District of Columbia. Prescott, Republican City Chairman, was away, and the President was asking information on who should be seen in Prescott's absence. The other telegram read: "Thank you for your message. You have always been most considerate. Mrs. Coolidge joins me in kindest regards to you and Mrs. McLean." This was an acknowledgment...
...Testimony by the man who had written the telegram referring to "principal" that "principal" referred to Senator Curtis, Republican Whip. Senator Curtis denied it. The White House declared that any conversation which the President had with the writer of the telegram (the editor of the Washington Post) must have been casual, since Mr. Bennet has not conferred with the President. Mr. Bennet himself said the remarks about "no rocking the boat" and "no resignations" were...
When it comes to discussing the efficiency of the 68th Congress, there is much to be said on three sides. Senator Wadsworth, Republican of New York: "Since I have been in the Senate, I have never seen so little accomplished in a relative period as during this session. This time last year we had passed all the appropriation bills. I can tell in one word what this Congress has done-nothing. The reason for it is that the radical bloc and the investigation hysteria have tied up the Senate. . . . The result will be that there will be no railroad...
...feared that President Coolidge would feel freer, politically, to veto the main tax bill if it did not include the immediate reduction. The next day, it was dubious whether the immediate reduction could be rushed through, because the Democrats were in arms against it. On the third day, several Republican leaders, notably Representative Green, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, and Representative Longworth, Republican Floor Leader, announced that they were against the attempt for rushing through the special resolution-because it could not be done-so in three days the attempt had practically blown over...