Word: citymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smart citymen are not without benefit from the Doran order. Well they know that they can share with wine-making husbandmen the "exceptions" under Prohibition. From many a company they can buy barrels of perfectly legal grape juice which, unless an act of God is carefully averted, will ferment in the city home to make a cup no less convivial than that quaffed on the farm. Urban winemakers were quick to interpret the Doran order as an added legal protection to their enterprise...
...Rhode Island the country districts are Republican, the city districts Democratic. Since the country existed before the city, the State Constitution was made by the countrymen, and the countrymen-Republicans have been jealously guarding the Constitution ever since, in order to preserve it from the ravages of the citymen-Democrats...
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