Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cloud of dust which is now swept about the Convention Hall at Kansas City on the wings of agrarian oratory whispers that the Middle West is not, for the seargeants-at-arms at least, the most fortuitous location for the Republican stronghold. Most of the candidates, it appears, are like so many tares scattered among the grain growers. And if the one hundred thousand embattled farmers which Governor McMullen intends to head in their frontal attack next week are not a battalion of Grim Reapers as far as the Hoover cause is concerned, they have in the bag, at least...
...Voted 306 to 57, to adjourn at 5 p. m., May 27; sent the resolution to the Senate. (Republican Leader Tilson had carried the resolution for days in his pocket, awaiting a propitious moment to introduce...
...least ten states in which the colored vote is the deciding factor- Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, New York." So say politicians oft and anon at this period of the presidential cycle. The man who said it last week was Perry W. Howard, Republican National Committeeman from Mississippi. Mr. Howard who is a Negro (light colored) also said: "The group I represent has unfortunate ly for years, and to a large extent, followed the political fortunes of Governor Smith in New York and it is essential that this support be brought-back to the Republican party...
...larceny committed while Secretary of State of New York, is not quite the same because it was unusual enough to arouse public interest. Women have been singularly unfortunate in their political adventures of late years, and no one forgets the debacle of "Ma" Ferguson in Tex, but when prominent Republican leaders admitted that her only fault was in not covering her tracks well enough there would seem to be ample reason for sympathy...
...interest of Germans in last week's general election (see above) was scarcely keener than their anxious curiosity about the functions of the two kidneys of Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann, now generally considered the ablest statesman of Republican Germany...