Word: fess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have just seen your issue of Sept. 29 and on p. 17 I find this statement: "Ohio's Senator Fess the Wet turned Dry who is ready to turn Wet again if necessary to hold...
Representing President Hoover at New York State's Republican convention at Albany last week was not Ohio's little red-faced professor-politician, Chairman Simeon Davison Fess of Republican National Committee, who had keynoted for the Administration at party assemblies in Ohio and Massachusetts. Instead. Mr. Hoover's No. I Cabinet man, Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, citizen of New York, was on hand. Statesman Stimson had served President Hoover like a good lawyer at the London Naval Conference. In much the same legalistic way at Albany he defended and expounded the record of his chief in a keynote...
...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's Senator Jones typifies the Dry who suddenly finds it politically wise to favor submitting to the States the repeal of the 18th Amendment, provided his State so orders...
This survey report did not, however, deter party leaders at headquarters and political observers elsewhere from reading signs and portents into the Maine result. Republican National Committee Chairman Fess referred to it as "a sweeping victory," "a stinging rebuke to the Democrats," an "endorsement of President Hoover." Democratic Executive Committee Chairman Shouse made much of reduced Republican majorities in Maine, declared his organization had sent no money, no speakers into the State, expressed himself as "thoroughly satisfied" with the outcome...