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...whom I have profound admiration. He is undoubtedly the greatest State Governor we have had in half a century, and I admire his honesty on the prohibition question. I also believe, because he said it, that he would lead a movement to repeal the Volstead Act and the Eighteenth Amendment. Because of the large wet element in the Democratic party, I believe he would have greater difficulty in enforcing the amendment than Hoover would have...
...Brown Derby was said to have no connection with a body called the National Committee for the Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment,* with offices at 100 Wall Street. The secretary of this committee, one Robert Athey, last week announced that 150,000 return postcards had been sent to voters. The cards bear a pledge to "vote against Congressmen who vote dry and drink wet and all those Congressmen who have received money or political support from the Anti-Saloon League, the W. C. T. U. or bootleggers, so there will be a liberal majority in the next Congress to help
...erroneous attacks upon his legislative record. Editor White stood corrected but added: "The undertakers are looking wistfully right now at three members of the United States Supreme Court, and with Al Smith as President we should have in that Court . . . three distinguished, learned, respectable lawyers . . . [who would] declare the Eighteenth Amendment unconstitutional before a cat . . . could wink her eye. . . . Smith's leadership comes from the amalgamated Tammanies of our great cities. . . . Shall Smith Tammanize America, or shall we Americanize Smith's Tammanies...
Softsoap. It was not difficult to persuade Mrs. Coolidge that she should not make her own soap. But 120 years ago, such persuasion was the chief problem of soap salesmanship. Soap making was a routine occupation of every household. The eighteenth century housewife thought of buying soap as the twentieth century housekeeper would think of buying fried eggs for breakfast. The first soap manufacturers had to be clever psychologists. They had to make it smart to buy soap...
That meant, chiefly, that the Smith Democracy stood for law enforcement, with special mention of the Eighteenth Amendment, and for some form of Agricultural relief legislation...