Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since Alfred Emanuel Smith became the Democracy's sheet anchor, many a Dry Democrat has "swallowed the anchor" with many a different kind of grin and grimace. Charles Wayland Bryan, brother and manager of the late William Jennings ("grape juice") Bryan whose opposition to a Smith nomination in 1924...
Another chef was the wayfaring Editor William Allen White of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette. Far at sea, Editor White heard that his "withdrawal" of charges against Nominee Smith had been interpreted as a "retraction." No retractor, Editor White cabled his fellow Kansan, Henry Justin Allen, national publicity chief for Hooverism...
Prostitution: "Mr. William Allen White sailed for Europe with a happy and contented mind. I hope, and I would not disturb it by attempting to describe to him the heavy weight that he laid upon my family when he accused me of being a friend of prostitution. . . . My record as...
"The second constitutional duty imposed upon the President is 'to recommend to the Congress such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.' Opinion upon prohibition cuts squarely across the two great political parties. There are thousands of so-called 'wets and drys' in each. The...
"I believe in temperance. . . . The mothers and fathers of young men and women throughout this land know the anxiety and worry which has been brought to them by their children's use of liquor in a way which was unknown before prohibition. I believe in reverence for law. Today...