Word: als
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Heflin's flat anti-Smith declaration was saved up until last week at Dothan, Ala., a town with a newspaper (the Eagle) which has said: "Oh Heflin . . . Oh Hell!" Cried the Senator, "I will vote against Al Smith, so help me God!" and exhausted most of his time with his well-known Anti-Catholic tirade...
...Al Smith has brought the matter [Prohibition] into the open; he has destroyed the atmosphere of secrecy and insincerity that surrounded it; it cannot again be relegated to the hush-hush closet. From sheer gratitude for this clearing of a most poisonous atmosphere-which the Republican party and Mr. Hoover are both breathing and perpetuating-I shall vote for Mr. Smith...
...Al-co-hol." He said it slowly...
...clubwoman done so, Katie Smith would not have cared. She had just come back from New England, where she had gone with Al; and in the course of that stupendous sally, so many women had cheered her that she was now incapable of feeling snubbed...
...honest leader of the Democratic Party" and said: "You know I am the luckiest boy in the world to receive my first vote in time to cast it for the man I have the honor to call father. ... I think my father is the best fellow in the world. . . ." Al Smith Jr., too, made speeches...