Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President appointed Silas H. Strawn, of Chicago, a Republican, and Thomas W. Gregory of Austin, Tex., a Democrat, to investigate and prosecute the alleged frauds. Mr. Strawn, although rated as a Republican, was a supporter of Grover Cleveland, and a partial supporter of Woodrow Wilson. He is a member of the Chicago law firm of Winston, Strawn and Shaw. Garrard Winston, one of his partners, is now Undersecretary of the Treasury. Mr. Strawn is Chairman of the Board of Montgomery Ward & Co. He is Chairman of the American Bar Asso- ciation's Committee on Legal Education...
Senator Moses, Republican: "Here we shall continue to find the partisan pack in full bay?Bess, Tray and Sweetheart?all hot upon the scent. Here, I suppose, we shall continue to see, and the country will not fail to take notice of, a proceeding in which we find sick chambers invaded by a jazz band, a ghoulish dance performed on a cemetery and partisan snipers making a rifle pit of the grave of Warren Harding...
...Republican party, in its platform, declared, that it "stands for agreement among the nations to preserve the peace of the world. We believe that such an international association must be based upon international justice, and must provide methods which shall maintain the rule of public right by the development of law and the decision of impartial courts, and which shall secure instant and general international conference whenever peace shall be threatened by political action, so that the nations pledged to do and insist upon what is just and fair may exercise their influence and power for the prevention...
...Harding in his speech of acceptance interpreted the Republican platform in the following language: "I can speak unreservedly of the American aspiration and the Republican committal for an association of nations, cooperating in sublime accord, to attain and preserve peace through justice rather than force, determined to add to security through international law, so clarified that no misconstruction can be possible without affronting national honor...
Thus a confused issue was presented to the American people. The principle of an agreement among the nations to preserve peace was avowed by the Republican party, but the League crested by the Versailles treaty was deneituced as a "Wilson League", and as creating a super state. Moreover, Mr. Harding in the course of the campaign suggested taking what was good in the League and excising what was objectionable, so as to arrive finally at the ideal of "an association of nations, cooperating in sublime accord, to attain and preserve peace through justice rather than force...