Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parties mean nothing to them, two Senators will glide gaily over party lines to encourage their parties' opponents at the coming election in Minnesota; to show further that the "progressive itch" is no respecter of denominations, one of the Senators is a Democrat, the other a Republican. On July 18, Minnesota will elect a successor to the late Senator Knute Nelson. The candidates are Governor J. A. O. Preus (Republican), State Senator J. T. Carley (Democrat), Magnus Johnson (Farmer-Labor). Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana (Democrat) announced that he would campaign for Johnson. He added to his announcement...
...also published "A Republican Prayer," beginning: "Oh, thou great and beloved old G. O. P. elephant, thou spirit of the past, however petered at present . . . thou that dwelled in the heart of our late and unlimited Theodore Roosevelt when he picked up Willie Taft (now Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court) by the seat of his political trousers and sat him down in the White House...
...first Republican to be elected Governor of Missouri since the Civil...
...He?although a young man? would have become the Republican candidate for the Presidency if Roosevelt had consented to retire in his favor...
...second day of the 1912 Convention " he had such an ovation as the Republican Convention gives only to its greatest leaders and never bestowed before upon one so young. (He was 40.) The Taft men offered Hadley the nomination if Roosevelt would consent. But Roosevelt would not. And Hadley in turn, although Roosevelt's floor-leader in the regular Convention, would not join the third party, and remained a "regular" Republican. He told Roosevelt he was a progressive but not an insurgent. "What's the difference?" asked the Colonel. "An insurgent," said Hadley, "is a progressive who is exceeding...