Word: republican
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another Good assignment: To make speeches for the President. This duty Secretary Good takes most conscientiously. He has traveled far and made ten major speeches since March 4 to such bodies as the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Red Cross, the War Mothers, the Republican ''Birthday Party" at Ripon...
...Senate sit 55 Republicans elected by the people. A majority, they control Senate committees, frame legislation. A Republican vice president sits upon the rostrum. Republican James Eli Watson leads the Senate. These facts did not deter Louis Kroh Liggett, drug tycoon, Republican National Committeeman for Massachusetts, at a G. O. P. clambake at Fall River, in analyzing the Republican defeat in Massachusetts last year as follows...
Committeeman Liggett failed to elect his Republican candidate Benjamin Loring Young to the Senate last November. Quick to retort was Frank J. Donahue, chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee: "Since the direct election of U. S. senators the Senate has become the liberal and progressive branch of the national government. . . . Does Mr. Liggett prefer the Platts, Quays, Penroses and Aldriches of his party to the Borahs, Johnsons, Norrises and Kenyons?" Mr. Donahue succeeded in electing his Democratic candidate, David Ignatius Walsh, to the Senate last November...
Having disposed of last-minute details, the Senate Finance Committee last week completed its rate revision of the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill, made public its handiwork. Its Republican members then took up the administrative provisions of the measure, which, by the system of valuation determined upon, will point the entire legislation up or down...
Kansas City. Sam Stine, 24, 5 ft. 7 in., chestnut hair, blue eyes, wanted for the robbery of Home Trust Co. and the murder of Policeman James Smith during the Republican National Convention last year...