Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walsh will present the Democratic campaign issues in the second of a series of three talks by members of different political parties. Yesterday Alfred Banker Lewis. Socialist senatorial nominee spoke in support of his candidacy, and tomorrow, at 1.30 o'clock, Mr. Eliot Wadsworth '98, prominent in Republican affairs in Massachusetts, will present the views of his party on the coming election...
...Robins was chairman of the convention of the Progressive Party which nominated Theodore Roosevelt '80 for the presidency. Since the collapse of the Progressive Party, he has been a leading figure in the Republican ranks, taking a leading part in presidential campaigns since 1916. Except for the occasion on which he was the defeated candidate for United States Senator from Illinois on the Progressive ticket in 1912, he has never run for a prominent office...
...convention then proceeded to back Robert F. Wagner, Democratic Senatorial candidate in New York, as "a man of the people," against Republican Senator James W. Wadsworth, who was said to have a "practically unbroken record of opposition to all forward-looking legislation...
...Bolshevik region of Canton and overwhelmed the whole Central Chinese Yangtze valley. Before he left Canton, War Lord Chang Kai-shek prophesied that he would capture the great industrial city of Wuchang on the Yangtze in time to celebrate there the 15th anniversary of the outbreak of the Chinese Republican Revolution. The city fell (TIME, Oct. 18) on the very day prophesied by Chang, and last week he meted out to the starvation-worn Wuchangese the quixotic terms of a typically Chinese peace...
Tyrus R. Cobb, Detroit baseball manager: "In the columns of able Journalist Clinton W. Gilbert, I noticed, recently, my name, coupled with that of Fielding Harris Yost, famed Michigan football coach. Commenting upon our oratorical support of Republican Congressman Robert H. Clancy, former Democratic Congressman, Mr. Gilbert graciously admitted that our advocacy helped defeat the sartorially notable Congressman John B. Sosnowski in Detroit's greatest Polish district. He wrote: 'Mr. Cobb commanded many votes among the masses. . . . Mr. Yost reached the intellectuals. His appeal was to the highbrows who follow the highbrow sport of football...