Word: republican
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...since the declaration of war a year ago a representative American electorate is given the opportunity to express its opinion on the issues and conduct of the struggle. In the three-cornered senatorial campaign which ends at the polls today the Wisconsin voters will choose between Len-root, a Republican who supports the war but who reserves judgment regarding its conduct, Davis, who is an out-and-out Administration Democrat, and Berger, a Socialist who runs on the astounding platform that "the American army should be immediately withdrawn from Europe to give complete security to the United States...
...election is interesting not because the vote of a Democrat or a Republican or a Socialist more or less will have any effect upon the legislation of the Senate, but because it will indicate the change, or lack of change, in sentiment in that hitherto pacifistic state. More than half the representatives from Wisconsin voted against declaring war last April and the legislature has only been induced after the lapse of a year to censure the notoriously disloyal La Follette. While the majority of the press and public men have since come out in support of the Government...
...present war situation and expressed his conviction of the need for immediate and active military training for all American boys between 19 and 21 years of age. Colonel Roosevelt, who leaves Boston this morning for Oyster Bay, arrived yesterday from Portland, Me., where he had spoken at the State Republican Convention Thursday night. While stating that he firmly believed that still more universal and intensive military training should be given young men of college age, he did not propose that young men should enter the army till after attending special training camps. The age at which they should be allowed...
...most popular men in his class. He was Managing Editor and later President of the CRIMSON, and was on the staff of the Advocate. He was a member of the Student Council, of the 1917 Class Day Committee, and belonged to the following clubs: Dramatic Club, Harvard Republican Club, Fly Club, Iroquois Club, the Signet, the Stylus and the Hasty Pudding...
...member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and during the last two years was speaker of that body. In 1905 he was a candidate for mayor of Boston. In 1908 he was elected lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts and was twice reelected. In 1911 he was the Republican nominee for Governor of Massachusetts and was barely beaten at the polls by Governor Foss, who was a candidate for re-election. He is now serving his second term as an Overseer of Harvard College, and has been also a lecturer on legislative procedure...