Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hays is now President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, following his resignation from President Harding's cabinet last March. He has long been prominent as a constructive factor in the Republican party, having been Chairman of the Republican National Committee from...
Indifference is a good cloak: it helps to keep one a good Democrat or a good Republican or even a good citizen, but it is hard on posterity. Some morning, say twenty cycles and four immensities ahead, the human race will wake up and chide the government because there is no sun. At 10 A. M. the officials, working by electric light, will have digged far into the ancient archives in search of prophecies concerning the present catastrophe. By 4 P. M. perhaps they will have found this entry: "Collision in Lyria...
...Harvard '94 while in college was a debater and organizer of Republican Clubs. A few years after he had graduated he had a chance to run for mayor of a great city. The rival candidate was not a college graduate. Mr. X decided that politics were too dirty--that he was not crooked enough to be mayor and that he would go into the automobile business...
...Lusitania, and condone those who blow them up; may weaken, by hostile notion, aggressive designs on Germany after the declaration of war; may make wartime service to one's country a political liability; may do infinite harm, by harsh criticism and stubborn blocking, to both Democratic and Republican administrations alike; yet find himself, by almost unanimous choice and in monotonous regularity, reelected to the Senate. That is--if he is Robert La Follette...
When he wrote to Booth, while a young man, offering the actor a suggestion as to an improvement in his histrionic technique, La Follette rather startled people. He has been doing so ever since, when Governor of Wisconsin, when drafting platforms for the Republican party, and seeing them rejected. Now he is startling Congress by his liberal progressive bloc, not the germ of a third party, for La Follette is too old a master to risk his neck on that horse again, but as a reform movement within the Republican party...