Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Harding appointed Walter L. Cohen, a Negro Republican, controller of customs at New Orleans. He tried to do so while Congress was in session, but the Senate, heeding the cries of the two Louisiana Senators, Broussard and Ransdell, refused to confirm the appointment. This is the first interim appointment (that is, an appointment good till Congress reassembles) ever made by a President once that Congress refused definitely to confirm the nomination of the man in question...
...regarded as ingratitude to Senators Broussard and Ransdell, Democrats, who supported various Republican measures, notably the Fordney-McCumber Tariff. In the South it is freely criticized as an attempt to capture the Negro vote in 1924. Says The New Orleans Times-Picayune...
...just want to say," said the attorney general for the National Association of Retail Druggists, "that although I was with the Republican National Committee for 20 years, I am advocating a Democrat for the next President and I shall use my influence with the 50,000 druggists of the United States...
Colonel George Harvey is to resign as American Ambassador to the Court of St. James. At any rate, that is the opinion of David Lawrence, correspondent for The Springfield Republican and other journals, who ranks with Mark Sullivan, William Hard, Robert Barry and John C. Owens as one of the greatest of political reporters...
Parallels are not hard to find with Theodore Roosevelt,* whose neice he married. Both went to Harvard, to Albany, to the Navy Department on the eve of war, and both were shuttled into vice presidential candidates. Franklin is as good a Democrat as Theodore was a Republican. He fought Tammany as the other Roosevelt fought the Old Guard. And both are associated with a love of books, people and the out-of-doors. Both favored large families...