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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...
...happen to be a son of Senator Fess, having resided in New York for the past six years, and, as far as his ever having been classified in the wet column is concerned, I can assure you that you are doing him a very gross injustice. As a matter of fact, he has been a sincere dry advocate during his entire lifetime...
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...