Word: modificationist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this autumn's elections. Last week the A. A. P. A. announced that it was writing to its 200,000 enrolment and asking $10 from each person. It promised to send the money "straight to the firing line" to help elect anti-Prohibition or modificationist Congressmen. Also, to make sure which men it wanted to support and which to fight, the A. A. P. A. sent questionnaires to all Congressional candidates...
...votes than his Dry opponents could find between them. Said the League: "It makes no difference," meaning that Keller was no longer a satisfactory Dry anyway. But the League's foes were jubilant. In the Duluth district, another Wet had won -the second blot-and in Minneapolis a Modificationist had badly scared Dry Representative Godfrey G. Goodwin. Apparently, thirsts were growing on the native prairies of Andrew J. Volstead...
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