Word: linthicum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...News & Observer. In 1916 the post was better handled by Robert Wickliffe Woolley of the New York World, who for his services was made an Interstate Commerce Commissioner. In 1920, few were the reprintings of Democratic publicity prepared by William J. Cochran of the St. Louis Republic. Robert Linthicum of the New York World is far better remembered for his poem on the death of Woodrow Wilson than for his Democratic outpourings in 1924. Last year Mrs. Belle Moskowitz, publicist-friend of Candidate Smith, headed the publicity committee, wrote little, got little printed. Working for the Brown Derby in Washington...
...House, Representative John Charles Linthicum of Maryland, leader of the "wet bloc," was re-elected and so were most of his most vigorous bloc-mates-New York's Sirovich, La Guardia, Black; Illinois' Sabath, Britten; Missouri's Dyer. But Representative S. Harrison White, wet Coloradoan, is out and Maryland's John Philip Hill, Leader Linthicum's predecessor, failed to get back into Congress. All this in the face of the best efforts of the Association against the Prohibition Amendment...
...immediate program is to increase the Wet bloc in Congress by working locally for the election of Wet Senators and Representatives. At last showing (TIME, Feb. 27), the Wet bloc in the House was 61 strong, led by Representative John Charles Linthicum of Maryland. The A. A. P. A. will also try to insert anti-Prohibition planks in the national platforms adopted at Kansas City and Houston...
Representative Blanton of Texas got the floor. After a characteristically long-winded beginning, he said: ". . . Have the citizens of this land become so helpless that they have to have Grandmother Linthicum from Maryland walk around with them to protect them from poisoned alcohol...
Next day, Wet Leader Linthicum took what satisfaction he could from a parliamentary victory, forcing the whole House to go on record on a Prohibition issue for the first time this session. But again his antipoison amendment lost, 61 to 283, with 89 members not voting and 91 absent...