Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans, President Coolidge placed a wreath at the base of the statue of the Democrat, Andrew Jackson, close to the White House. No previous Republican President is known to have done...
...Calvin's Campaign" for the Republican nomination in 1924 marches on at a surprisingly steady and sure-footed gait-so steady, so surefooted that politicians and public alike are moved to wonder and to examine its propelling powers...
Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, whose boom for the nomination swelled only a few months ago, seems to have shrunken into little more than a candidate for Pennsylvania delegate-at-large to the Republican Convention. All the formidable rivals of Coolidge seem to have withered in the bud, excepting only Senator Hiram Johnson of California. There are some who see Senator Johnson's boom as already suffering from a drought of public support...
...Rules Committee reported out proposed liberalization of the rules, demanded by the Republican insurgents (TIME, Dec. 17, 24). The changes approved by the majority of the Committee but disapproved by radical and by Democratic members include: 1) If a petition signed by 150 members is presented, a majority of the House may, on the first or third Monday of any month, discharge a bill which has been in Committee for 30 days and begin consideration on the floor; 2) If a bill is approved by a Committee, its Chairman may not pocket the bill but must report...
...Republican caucus in the House voted viva voce, with little dissent, that the Ways and Means Committee should report out a tax reduction bill by Feb. 11, giving it precedence over a bonus bill. The caucus also voted down resolutions directing the Committee necessarily to report a bonus bill...