Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First there was Calvin Coolidge. His followers announced definitely for the first time that he would be nominated on the first ballot at the Republican Convention in Cleveland next June? and gave reasons why. In the Convention there will be 1,109 delegates, and 555 votes will nominate. Asserting that they have eliminated from consideration every state whose delegation may possibly go against the President, his followers counted 597 delegates in his favor...
Hiram Johnson, the only other active Republican candidate for the Republican nomination who stepped over the boundary line from 1923 to 1924, is apparently badly handicapped. His supporters make no small point of the fact that most of the "certain" Coolidge states are from the East and the "patronage bought" South...
...most rabid pacifist should object to such aid to the constituted authority in Mexico is difficult to imagine, and yet Representative Fairchild, a Republican, will criticism this action by introducing a bill to prohibit sale of arms to any foreign nation. Adoption of such a policy would not only repudiate an action which in this particular case is more than wise, but would negate what has always been considered sound international practice...
Nicholas Longworth recently became Republican Floor Leader of the House. The personality of his wife, Alice Roosevelt (who never pays calls) may not explain this event, but does explain a great deal about "Nick." Similarly, what secrets of the personality of Borah, the thunderer, are not suggested by the knowledge that he has a shy golden-haired wife, "Little Borah," and lives in an apartment with Chinese decorations and three canaries flitting at large...
...Free State Governments ordered the release of 400 Republican prisoners. Between Dec. 1 and Dec. 23, 3,481 prisoners were liberated...