Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...powerful nor so well organized but the most immediately dangerous of the three"? According to the Klan's pamphlet "it is not necessary to name these groups as every man has felt pressure from them all". You think that of course the Klan is referring to the Republican, the Democratic and the Prohibition parties. Oh no! Then possibly it means capital and labor, with the middle class as the imminent danger. But no: closely as these groups answer the description the Ku Klux Klan overlooks them and creeps covertly up behind three great windmills: a Jewish organization (discovered...
Were it not for two doubtful factors, it would be safe to predict a victory of a few thousand votes for Mr. Murphy, the Good Government Association Candidate for mayor. The women's vote and the campaign of Mr. Baxter, who is posing as a Republican make the outcome of the election uncertain. Otherwise the circumstances are about as they were in 1917, when Mayor Peters was chosen for the same office...
...Baxter's misleading position makes it harder still for these new voters. Although in reality he is merely attempting to break the Good Government ranks by posing as a Republican candidate; he will probably succeed in deceiving a large number of those who usually cast their ballot along strictly partisan lines...
...that purpose he was bound to summon a conference of the Allied and Associated Powers. But if his conference was to accomplish an immediate practical result, it must avoid the ugly and for the present irreconcilable dissensions which Europe had inherited from the war and for which the Republican leaders did not wish the American government to assume responsibility. A proposed international agreement, fathered by a Republican administration, must deal with a region of international disorder and conflict in which the American nation was directly and traditionally interested, yet whose pacification would involve some substantial relief from the expense...
...That he was elected," continued Mr. Holt, "does not in any way imply that the majority of the people reject the league. It was simply because he was the candidate of the Republican party at a time when it was impossible for the Republican party not to win. The reason for its winning was that since it had the tremendous advantage of being the outside party, it was very easy for it to pick years hence, it will be equally easy for the Democratic party...