Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Highway Association, with his associates; 4) James Weldon Johnson, Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, with a petition for the release of 54 Negroes of the 24th Infantry in Leavenworth Penitentiary for the Houston Riot of 1917; 5) Henry Lincoln Johnson, Republican National Committeeman from Georgia. Even the President was reported to have found this a case of too much Johnson; he addressed one of the Johnsons on a subject which pertained to another...
...38th annual Lincoln Day dinner of the National Republican Club, at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan, President Coolidge expressed himself on Government policies at such length as he has done only once before, in his message to Congress. The Lincoln Day address was fittingly called the opening attack of his campaign for nomination. As such it contained a more extensive explanation of the reasons which have prompted his policies than any previous declaration. Extracts...
...There will be immediate, adequate, unshrinking prosecution, criminal and civil, to punish the guilty, and to protect every national interest. In this effort there will be no politics, no partisanship. It will be speedy, it will be just. I am a Republican, but I cannot on that account shield any one because he is a Republican. I am a Republican, but I cannot on that account prosecute any one because he is a Democrat...
Mellon Bill. By a vote of 15 to 3, the Mellon tax reduction bill was reported out by the Ways and Means Committee. Every Republican voted "Yea," three Democrats voted "No," eight Democrats voted "Present." But it must be noted that all of the Republicans do not favor the measure as it stands. In fact, there are four types of opinion in the Committee: 1) Those Republicans who prefer the Mellon bill as it stands, with a maximum surtax of 25%; 2) those Republicans-including Chairman Green-who want a maximum surtax of 32% to 35%; 3) the insurgent Republicans...
...took an active interest in Republican politics, first in New York, then in the national arena. Soon after taking office, President Harding offered him the Assistant Secretariat of Labor, but he declined. In June of 1921, he did accept an appointment to the Shipping Board. Now he sits at its head...