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...mass-meeting of Allied Drys in an uptown church brought a turnout...
...Weasels; 3 Wins. The G. O. P. has won three national elections straight by sidestepping Prohibition as an issue. Each time the party platform carried a strong law enforcement declaration but weaseled on the 18th Amendment. Warren Gamaliel Harding patted the Drys on the back and took drinks in the White House. Calvin Coolidge did not drink in office but otherwise lacked deep convictions on Prohibition. He felt that it was smart politics to stand in well with the professional Drys because their voting strength was better organized and more effective than the scattered Wets...
...Secretary of Commerce. His personal attitude was that the few, like himself, could handle liquor as temperate gentlemen but that for the masses Prohibition was a good thing. His 1928 declaration ("a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose") satisfied the U. S. Drys, Consolidated. That Wets voted at all for Nominee Hoover was due to his ambiguous references to "investigating Prohibition" and the sly whispers of Hooverizers that he was not really as Dry as he seemed...
...country Dryer than ever. For once the whisperings of his office staff that his mind was still "open" failed to convince. Rather it became understood that the President was impressed with some advice from Calvin Coolidge: that Herbert Hoover had back of him only one remaining large group, the Drys. To disaffect these would be political suicide...
Resubmission. The big question at the White House last week was: How Wet can the G. O. P. go in its platform and still hold "fair minded" Drys? The answer was necessarily a matter of word-juggling and hairsplitting. Should the iSth Amendment be mentioned by name? Should the party declare for resubmission to the people by the extra-constitutional means of a national referendum? Or should it simply fall back on a noncommittal recital of the standard method of altering the Constitution by Congress and the States? Should some tricky system of conventions, such as Secretary Hyde...