Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Combining many of the features of the English parliamentary system of government with the American presidential system, the new German frame of government undertakes an innovation which commands the attention of all who live under a republican government. Fear of a coup d'etat by the junker element, coupled with machinations of the present capitalist regime have thus far prevented the new Constitution of Germany from getting under way. The Ruhr crisis may furnish the required stimulus and with a president chosen by the vote of the whole German people a more definite course of action, for better...
When Mr. Simeon Fess, ex-Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee, attempts to portray the President as a lawgiver and executive of the blood and stature of Lincoln, public opinion is at once skeptical and on the defense. When, on the other hand, The New York World, or Mr. Joseph T. Robinson, minority leader in the Senate, impale him upon a phrase like "the creature of a Senatorial oligarchy," or call him the " synthetic automaton of a few reactionary political doctors who met secretly in a room in the Blackstone Hotel in 1920," public prejudice and the mob's love...
Consideration of the proposal in the Senate was moved not by a Re- publican, but by a Democrat, Senator King of Utah. The vote for and against immediate consideration was divided on practically the same lines as the vote on the League of Nations Covenant. Senator Lodge, Republican leader, merely declared against consideration. Senator Johnson, leader of the irreconcilables, led the insurgent group against the proposal itself. The vote of the Senate indicates chiefly that the Republicans want public opinion to crystallize before taking a definite stand...
Torn by schisms, the strong Republican Congress that convened two years ago presented a state of disorganization at the end of its career. The Senate was peevish and forgot the traditional courtesy of thanking the Vice President and the President pro tem. The House was boisterous, with the assistance of the Marine Band and much backslapping. Nobody turned the legislative clock back to prolong the last...
ILLINOIS: Following the defeat of Edward R. Litzinger, of the Lundin machine, by Postmaster Arthur C. Lueder for the Republican mayoralty nomination, a Grand Jury investigation of the Chicago City Hall was authorized. This marks another step in the successful attack on the Thompson-Lundin organization, characterized as a " second Tweed ring...