Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Texas is a Democrat and a resounding Dry. Mr. Pinchot had expressed admiration of the Texan's broad-brimmed hat. Last week a box reached the capital of Pennsylvania bearing the selfsame hat as a present. Governor Pinchot clapped it on his head, remarking: " My kind of a Republican can wear the hat of his kind of a Democrat...
...McCormick remarks are not to be interpreted, however, entirely in the light of Hiram Johnson's candidacy. Senator McCormick is a son-in-law of the late Mark Hanna, the great Republican boss. He got into politics through journalism. Beginning as reporter, he advanced to publisher and principal owner of the Chicago Daily Tribune. He was sucked into politics by the Payne-Aldrich Tariff bill, joined with Roosevelt and the Progressives in the fight on Taft in 1912. Then his comrades-in-arms were Gifford Pinchot and Hiram Johnson. In 1916, however, he returned to the Republican fold...
Thus Medill McCormick is asso- ciated with the "progressives" in national politics and the extreme League of Nations irreconcilables, two groups who have caused no little trouble to the "regulars" in the Republican camp. In both respects he has a natural community of interest with Hiram Johnson, and his remarks are typical of the opposition that the Administration has to face from both groups...
...protestants. Senator William Edgar Borah of Idaho has announced his intention of making a fight on the 5-4 rule in favor of a 7-2. In association with him will be Representative Roy Orchard Woodruff, Republican, one time dentist of Bay City, Mich., later its Mayor, now its Congressman. They have prepared a plan and a program...
Magnus Johnson, Farmer-Labor Senator from Minnesota, naturally does not approve the choice of Frank B. Kellogg, one of his Republican opponents, to be Ambassador to Britain. A reporter suggested to Magnus that Mr. Kellogg, like Colonel Harvey, might take to silk knee breeches, " Magnavox " roared: "Those black pants on Frank Kellogg would sure be a sight for sore eyes...