Word: gored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dryish Gore...
...blunder when you list Senator Gore as a Wet (TIME, Aug. 25). Senator Gore was nominated in the same election in which the very Dry Oklahoma Constitution was adopted and was twice re-elected as a bone Dry. . . . The Wet wing of the Democratic party of Oklahoma was squelched in the campaign...
...widespread was the impression that Nominee Gore had turned Wet that on Sept. 21 the Anti-Saloon League felt it necessary to publish a Dryish letter from him. In this letter he used the following weasel-words: "Should time and experience demonstrate the necessity for a change in the law, such change ought to be made by the friends of temperance rather than its enemies...
...Gore. After the capture of leading federal army officers, eight thousand state troops and police surrounded and captured the federal soldiers in Rio Grande do Sul, but skirmishes were many throughout the three disaffected states as the revolution sought to unify and find itself. Two battleships, bearing federal troops and airplanes, at once set out from Rio to make contact with the revolutionists last week. In short order at Sao Paulo 2,000 youths enlisted to fight the rebels. President Washington Luis admitted that "this internal commotion is projected and directed by the governments of the states involved." He predicted...
...seven largest bells of the new Lowell House carillon were brought to Cambridge yesterday and stored in the construction shack adjacent to Gore Ball. The remaining 14 bells will probably be transferred to the same storage place today...