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...earn this week the thanks of both Wets and Drys by saying the W. C. T. U. has a "crafty old head" in Mrs. Ella A. Boole (TIME, July 18). You have furnished the Wets another opprobrious and abusive epithet for women, of whom you mention three, whose title to honor and respect no Wet seems able to understand...
...sprung. It was evident that Commander Clark's purpose was to meet the Dry forces well over the halfway mark; to get them, if he could, to unite in a movement which would put Temperance above the 18th Amendment. The only barrier existing between the Crusaders and the Drys that he could see was the fact of the existing Prohibition laws. Much interested, Secretary Wilson so plainly expressed his approval of the Crusaders' "fair and constructive stand" on Temperance that next day Chicago newspapers drew the exaggerated conclusion that the Dry leader had become "moist." An echo...
Strategy. In the Prohibition Party's convention the U. S. Drys, Consolidated, failed to find a practical answer to their political problem. This week in Washington the National Conference of Organizations Supporting the 18th Amendment was to hold a joint meeting to map their campaign. The predominant Dry sentiment is against any third party action on the ground that it could not achieve positive results to keep the 18th Amendment intact. Dry leaders plan to work within the two major parties, trying to elect to Congress members pledged against Resubmission or Repeal, thereby blocking any change at the start...
Step No. 3. When the State conventions assembled they would elect chairmen who would put one question to the floor: To repeal or not to repeal. Each delegate would vote yes or no according to whether he had been chosen to represent Wets or Drys. Each chairman would report the result of the vote to his Legislature, which would forward it through the Governor to the U. S. Secretary of State...
...situation hasn't changed a bit," chirped Arthur ("Bugs"') Baer, another highly paid journalistic wisecracker. "The Wets are lined up against the Drys. And the Drys are lined up against...