Word: antis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reasons: foreign and economic policies. Mrs. Gertrude M. Pattangall, Maine Democrat, onetime (1920-28) member of the Democratic National Committee. Reason: Prohibition. Irving H. Mezger, Baltimore Democrat, attorney. Reason: "These [Smith's] are not the tactics of an old-line Democrat." Mr. Mezger promised to form a local anti-Smith organization among "old-line" Democrats. Nathan Newby, James 0. Davis, Mrs. Katherine Braddock and Mrs. James Ellis Tucker, California (McAdoo) Democrats. Reasons: Prohibition, Tammany. Vance McCormick, chairman of the Democratic National Campaign Committee in 1916. Reason, as revealed in the McCormick-owned Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot: "to disregard the Constitution...
...medal hung around his neck. He rolled like a porpoise, spouted like a whale, chortled like a boy. The cooling off had been made doubly welcome by a series of political backfires during the week-the Owen "bolt," the Simmons resignation (see p. 11), the digging up of some anti-cigaret legislation which the Nominee had introduced under pressure as a young legislator, and the republication of that same legislator's entire voting record on legislation touching public morals. The latter "expose" was the work of Willian Allen White, the round-faced, good-humored, politically astute editor...
...Also, three votes against this whole bill at various stages of its passage. A vote (1906) against a bill providing local option by petition of a simple majority of the voters of a district. Votes (1914, 1915) against bills providing for the creation, by popular vote, of anti-saloon territory, and enforcement of prohibition within such territory. Votes (1915) to stifle in committee bills providing for a state referendum on prohibition. Votes (1907-11) to provide exceptions to the laws prohibiting sale of liquor within 200 feet of a church or school. A vote (1911) for extending the hours when...
...white Texas primary held last week returned Governor Dan Moody for re-election by some 100,000 votes. T. B. Love, loudspoken anti-Smithist, candidate for Lieutenant-Governor, ran some 80,000 votes behind Barry Miller, pro-Smith. Senator Earle B. Mayfield was close-pressed in defending his seat from ambitious Representative Tom Connally...
Wilson victory was rewarded with the highest Cabinet post. The reward bristled with trouble. His first struggle secured government rather than banker control of the Federal Reserve. Then, as Prince of Peace, he effected anti-war pacts with 30 nations, but his Tolstoian principles were put severely to the test by the Mexican situation, by the California-Japan dispute over property ownership, and finally by the Great War. His influence over Wilson was early supplanted by Colonel House, who pulled strings, machinated quietly, buzzed around in one department after the other...