Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Well, what is the Republican answer to all this? ... A quotation from George Washington, another one from Abraham Lincoln and, at the bottom of the two quotations, a promise to enforce it-and not only to enforce it but to vigorously enforce...
Legislator. Matthew J. Patterson, plump, horn-spectacled member of the State Legislature and Vare-Republican leader of the 19th ward, was arrested and held in $15,000 bail, charged with extortion, bribery, conspiracy. A lawyer testified that Mr. Patterson had commissioned him to collect certain moneys "for campaign purposes." During six months up to Aug. 15, the lawyer had accordingly obtained $12,195 from one William C. Peters, a florid gentleman with a drooping moustache. The lawyer was not aware that Mr. Peters was a saloonkeeper. He was not aware that the funds were protection fees from 20 speakeasies...
This spectacle titillated the city's Democrats. They sent a summary of the testimony to all county organizations and the Democratic National Committee, charging that saloon money was being used to finance the local Republican organization. With imaginative gusto the Democrats pictured the saloons of all 48 wards turning a possible $560,000 into Republican tills...
...Authors. Since graduating from Columbia Law School in 1884 Charles Evans Hughes has been, successively, able attorney, Governor of New York, justice of the Supreme Court, republican candidate for the presidency, Secretary of State. Another of his distinguished titles is "Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple" (London...
Herbert Bayard Swope, of the Democratic New York World, bought an estate worth $450,000 on Long Island. Its name is "Keewaydin." This means, the Republican and opposition New York Herald-Tribune hastened to point out, "Northwest Wind, or, in some dialects, Very...