Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seventh.............. 40 3 40 Eighth............. 39 2 41 Ninth............ 40 2 41 Tenth.............. 43 6*-† Eleventh.......... 41 l*-† Twelfth................ 39 11† Thirteenth............. 39 12†38 Fourteenth............... 38 12† 38 voting nearly ended at the eighth ballot. Brookhart, Frazier, Howell, Ladd, Norris, Republican insurgents, voted consistently for La Follette (who was ill and not present). With them voted the Farmor-Laborites, Shipstead and Magnus Johnson. On the seventh ballot all the insurgent group except Howell, Ladd and Norris voted for the Democratic candidate. On the eighth ballot, Ladd joined those voting for Smith-and Smith would...
...perhaps, worthwhile to record the first woman Chairman of a Congressional Committee-Mrs. Mae E. Nolan, Republican, Representative from California, sole female member of the 68th Congress. She was chosen Chairman of one of the House's 60 committees-the Committee on Expenditures of the Post Office Department. She is also a member of the Labor Committee, of which her late husband and predecessor was Chairman. At her own request, she was relieved of her post on the Woman Suffrage Committee, because she did not care to hold more than two committee posts...
...these words: "Hon. R. B. Creager of Brownsville, Texas, has been tendered the post of Ambassador to Mexico by President Coolidge, as had also been done by President Harding. Mr. Creager, since the death of President Harding, has been chosen National Committeeman and has become the head of the Republican Party organization in his State and a very influential party leader in the Southwest. He is unwilling to give up this work that his fellow citizens have entrusted to him, and has therefore declined for the present the opportunity to be Ambassador to Mexico...
...Republican National Committee came together in Washington and decided that the Republican National Convention would meet on June 10, 1924, at Cleveland. The choice of the convention city was made among three contenders, Chicago (the favorite) having dropped out at the request of the Administration, (TIME, Dec. 17). The vote was: Cleveland 39; San Francisco 10; Des Moines...
...Republican National Committee decided, also subject to approval by the Convention, that hereafter there will be one woman as well as one man member from each State composing its membership. This follows the leadership of the Democrats, who gave women similar representation...