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Word: modificationist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A.A.P.A. | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bond Salesman | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

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