Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President held a series of conferences with Republican politicians on the question of some 200 appointments to vacant posts which are to be submitted to the Senate for approval. The only appointment announced at the White House was that of Edwin P. Morrow, retiring Governor of Kentucky, as a member of the Railroad Labor Board to succeed Judge R. M. Barton...
...William C. Procter, Ivory soap man, "angel" of the Leonard Wood campaign in 1920, and "Bob" Wolfe, newspaper proprietor of Columbus, O., both arch enemies of Harry M. Daugherty, visited the White House. The President is openly trying to patch up the Republican split in Ohio. Otherwise he has small chance of securing a block 'delegation from Ohio to the Republican Convention...
...public's estimate of the man. President Coolidge has been considered stable, carefully conservative, practical in a business way, in fact a good representative of the Grand Old Party; and his message bears this out. He is following President Harding's policies, as he promised; he is a true Republican in his endorsement of high tariff and his reserved attitude toward the farmers of the radical west. And in his denouncement of the bonus and his backing of the Mellon tax reduction plan, he has the true Republican eye for the country's business prosperity. While these points...
There is one more fairly clear point. While obviously far from playing politics, President Coolidge has made so strong an appeal to the heart of the public, especially in his tax, bonus, child labor, and mimimum-wage-for-women recommendations, that he who reckons without the President at the Republican convention is likely to receive a severe jolt. Though Johnsons may blow their trumpets from the steeps". President Coolidge has made a simple, direct appeal to the heart...
...abolition of the set line between the conservative and the progressive has been adopted largely because these divisions do not represent the division between the two great American parties. The Democratic and Republican party platforms cannot be distinguished as either progressive or conservative, and it is, therefore, difficult to find questions in American politics which are inherently conservative or progressive, suitable for debate in the Union...