Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These two gentlemen with their "regular" Republican supporters can kill radical tax measures in committee. But once they send out on the floors of the Senate and House bills of the Administration, the radicals and Democrats can amend and alter them to their hearts' content. The result would be bad for the Republican Party and unsettling to business. "For expediency's sake,," say Messrs. Smoot and Green, " we ought not to try to do what we ought...
Representative Melvin Orlando McLaughlin (Republican) was the only one of Nebraska's six Congressmen so fortunate as to be re-elected last Fall. He has degrees from the Peru (Neb.) Normal School, the Union Biblical Seminary, Oskaloosa College, Omaha University, Leander Clark College. He has been a teacher, a United Brethren Minister, a college President and since 1919 a Congressman. He is President of the Lever Lock Rim Co., a Common Law trust company of Colorado, capitalized for $500,000 in shares of one dollar each. Last week he almost got into trouble...
...letter franking privilege for other than official business. The General Manager of the Lever Lock Rim Co. used some 250 of Mr. McLaughlin's franked envelopes, with Congressional stationery, in sending out letters from the Company's Manhattan office. The letters were sent to "Republican friends," inviting them to subscribe to the Company's stock "on the merits of inside information...
...letters fell into the hands of a Manhattan newspaper that enjoys no sport as much as baiting Republicans. An exposé followed. Mr. McLaughlin telegraphed asking whether "any person had been so ignorant" as to use his envelopes without stamping them. Thereupon the contrite General Manager began a check on the number of letters sent out, promised to send a check to the Post Office Department for the postage, despatched a telegram to the National Republican Committee to prevent the Congressman's "getting in wrong," made a public statement: "I'm solely responsible. I made a big mistake...
...foundation of the German Republic in 1918, the German people had hoped that the new government would be enabled to provide them with the necessities of civilized life, that it would be allowed to assure them 'peace, work, and bread'." He then went on to show how the German republican government had been on all occasions outraged and rebuffed by the Poincare government, in spite of its sincere attempts at an understanding; how German economic prosperity had been destroyed by the incessant French exactions of excessive payments and its peace ruined by the resulting French occupation of German territory...