Word: cratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Women got excited on both sides of Prohibition in Washington last week. The only things the National Woman's Demo- cratic Law Enforcement League and the Women's Organization For National Prohibition Reform had in common were: the awkward length of their names, an intense belief that liquor would be the paramount 1932 issue, a visit to the White House...
...hold the bal- ance of power, will be able to do the most with their economic program. Their activities at the next session (December to June, 1932) will color the whole presidential campaign. Last week's meeting served to emphasize the drift of Progressive opinion from Republican to Demo- cratic principles. To Progressives, President Hoover has become a hopeless reactionary; they have lost faith in winning any of their reforms through the Republican party. Democracy, they hope, will furnish a presidential candidate they can support. Most favored among them at the moment is Governor Roosevelt; most disliked is Owen...
...House, saw his opportunity in the split which Chairman Fess, in trying to avert, had created. Rushing to Washington, Congressman Linthicum indited invitations to all 71st House members to attend a Wet Bloc organization meeting early in December. Of Chairman Fess's statement he said: "It means a Demo cratic victory beyond a doubt." Mr. Linthicum put Repeal above party, insisting: "Regardless of party platforms, the fight to elect Wet members . . . will continue. . . . We have just begun to fight." Sage, he did not envisage Repeal as possible before the 73d Congress, but declared "constructive Wet activity'' might achieve much...
...praiseworthy trend toward laissez-faire continues in the Houses. The most recent development is a plan which is permitting the library committee of each new unit to order its books direct, without becoming involved in the bureau-cratic ramifications of Widener...
...Half Dry. Ohio furnished the strangest political contradiction over Prohibition. Fortnight ago Republicans convened at Columbus to write a platform on which Dry Senator Roscoe Conkling McCulloch could stand for reelection. Delegates from Wet urban centres were frankly frightened at the strength developed by Robert Johns Bulkley, Demo- cratic Senatorial Nominee, a "repeal-and-return" Wet. Maurice Maschke, Cleveland boss, Ohio's Republican National Committeeman, fearful lest Nominee Bulkley should break through in Cleveland, Toledo, Youngstown et al and work Republican disaster, urged a Wet referendum plank of sorts upon the convention. But Wet resolutions were quashed...