Word: dryness
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...reasoning is in the opposing propaganda, which, however, reaches the same results by the high rather than the low road. Hoover, of course, was not the cause of the depression; Prosperity is bound to return; the farmers will receive aid from the government; not much possibility of anything but dryness, but if not, there are always the bootleggers; Americans will live happily ever after. Therefore, no matter what happens, Prosperity will return and Americans live happily ever after...
...granite (at Concord, Milford, Conway); power (notably the $32,000,000 generating plant at the 15-mile falls near Monroe, owned by Grafton Power Co., indirect subsidiary of International Paper & Power Corp.); boxwood (notably at Nashua, Keene and Rochester-where last fortnight bells were rung in celebration of the "Dryness" of the Wickersham report [TIME...
While rumors ran around the White House lobbies that the President would make yet another statement of his attitude on the Wickershambles, men who know him well endeavored to make everything plain by brushing aside Politics, brushing aside Wetness and Dryness, and talking about Herbert Hoover's Idealism...
...Kinds of Dryness. Over the fence are the Drys, as heterogeneous a group as the Wets. Their one common ground is approval of the 18th Amendment. A minority are Drys by conviction, a majority by political expediency. Their ranks range from the Constitutional Dryness of Idaho's Senator Borah through the drinking Dryness of South Carolina's Senator Blease to the cynically fickle Dryness of New Hampshire's Senator Moses. Utah's Senator Smoot represents the religious Dry, Ohio's Senator Fess the Wet turned Dry who is ready to turn Wet again if necessary to hold his job. Washington...
...three questions: 1) Shall the 18th Amendment be repealed? 2) Shall the Volstead Act be modified? 3) Shall the State Dry law be repealed? On two previous Prohibition polls (1922, 1926), Illinois voted Wet two-to-one. Observers last week could detect no shift in sentiment this year toward Dryness. The Republican leaders at Springfield therefore framed a party plank pledging themselves to go Wet if the referendum should go Wet. Up rose Nominee McCormick to declare...