Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Walsh, in his address before the Liberal Club, reported on another page of this issue, diagnosed to some extent the present political condition of the country. For years the sentiment of the country has wavered between the Republican party and the Democratic party from election to election. Inchoate dissatisfaction against one has thrown the other into power, while revolt against both has sporadicaly brought about the election of a third-party candidate. Such revolt dates farther back than the recent election to Congress of Magnus Johnson in Minnesota, even farther than 1891, when James B. Weaver was presidential candidate...
...certain that such a condition of dissatisfaction exists. But the cause of it is not the apparent convergence of Republican and Democratic party planks. The cause lies in the fact that neither party produces leaders; that instead of electing men who by their positive strength will lead the party and the country, each elects men who will be subordinate to the whims and politics of the party. By the very nature of the party nomination machinery, candidates must be apparently colorless enough to please the majority (or in the Democratic party, two-thirds) of the party delegates. And since each...
Harvard University has a Republican Club with an Executive Committee of Alumni that bears some famous names: Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, '71; Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., '09; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Eliot Wadsworth, '98; Louis A. Coolidge, '83, not to mention five Congressmen and the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Other members are Amory Houghton, '21 (son of Alanson B. Houghton, Ambassador to Germany), and Henry Cabot Lodge, 2nd, '24 (grandson of the Senator). The undergraduate membership of the club...
...Infantry barracks, where he had been installed since the Ludendorff-Hitler putsch, to the Government Building. Nothing exciting or interesting in that. But what did cause some gossip was that Dr. von Kahr caused to be raised the old German Flag, black, white and red, instead of the Republican Flag, black, red and gold...
Nevertheless, and all other reports to the contrary, the monarchical situation in Germany is serious. The blunders of the republican governments and the poverty of the people have made a greater part of these look with hope toward a monarchy as their only salvation...