Word: republican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Having raised many a squawk about balancing the national budget, the Republican National Committee last week confronted their own whacking deficit of $660,000, decided to wheedle 660 well-stocked Republicans into contributing $1,000 each toward a clean slate...
...last week New Hampshire's Senator Harry Styles Bridges† bounded like a bandersnatch. Object of bulgy, lusty Senator Bridges' travels and speeches was to plug himself for the G.O.P. Presidential nomination. He hammered indiscriminately at the whole New Deal, showed himself to many a far-western Republican. Observing Mr. Bridges' progress with pride & prejudice were his two wealthy young angels: Edmund Converse, 32, short, blond, dynamic, whose grandfather founded the Bankers Trust Co. of New York; and tall, deliberate Palmer Beaudette, 26, whose grandfather once made Model-T bodies for Ford...
...General William Tecumseh Sherman, American, declined the Republican nomination...
With expedients exhausted, Toledo's deficit last week reached $800,000. Cleveland had only a few thousand dollars to pay for relief until Jan. 1, said it needed $1,000,000. The urban centres pleaded for a special meeting of the Legislature, but Republican Governor John W. Bricker, elected on a platform pledging "adequate relief," insisted that other means should be found first...
...week's end the Legislature had not met, rich Ohio was still desperate. To a group of labor leaders, deeply conservative Republican Mayor Harold H. Burton of Cleveland, suggested in a discouraged mood: "Labor can go to the Governor independently of the city. You can give him the devil far better than...