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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...
...Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio. A few years later he was making if1 and 2^ envelopes and newspaper wrappers for the government on a four-year contract. He also prospered in Oklahoma oil. Then he retired and began his National University Society, persuading Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, now national chairman of the G. O. P., to be board chairman. At first the 17-day sessions were addressed by economics professors. One day President Marchand had to fill a lecturer's place because of illness. He and others directly acquainted with business have been doing the lecturing ever since...
...Senator Fess could not make the party Dry by word, he could by deed. He promptly appointed Mrs. Lenna Lowe Yost, potent Washington lobbyist for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, to be director of the important Women's Division of the Republican National Committee, vice Mrs. Louise M. Dodson of Iowa, resigned. Mrs. Yost, a sister-in-law of Fielding Harris ("Hurry Up") Yost, athletic director at the University of Michigan, was a student under Senator Fess when he was professor of law at Ohio Northern University. She moved to West Virginia, entered politics as a feminist. She headed...
...Yost's appointment caused menacing rumblings from the Wet wing of the G. O. P. First to protest was Republican Congressman Fiorello Henry LaGuardia of New York: "Chairman Fess can't dry up the Republican party. . . . Mrs. Yost will be only a temporary director of women's activities because we won't stand for it. . . . There'll be a Wet explosion at the next national convention." Major Henry Hastings Curran, president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, loudly mocked Chairman Fess's attempts to eliminate Prohibition as an issue...
...national party the Democrats seemed ready to concede Chairman Fess's point that Prohibition should be kept out of the headquarters campaign. Mindful of the Dry wing of his party in the South, Jouett Shouse, the Democratic national executive chairman, last week declared: "I don't regard Prohibition as a national issue between the two parties in this election." However he did not weasel on his personal position: "There must be a change in the Prohibition laws. There should not be a repeal of the 18th Amendment without offering some constructive substitute. I believe that will take the form...