Word: nicholson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under the energetic presidency of Maryland's plump Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson. She flayed all Wet Democratic presidential possibilities, warned everyone within earshot that her women would bolt their party as they did in 1928 if a Dry were not nominated. Of New York's Governor Roosevelt she said: "This candidate, while mentally qualified for the presidency, is utterly unfit physically.* He has failed to show the kind of leadership we want in our President by his vacillation and dilatory tactics. . . . Let us not be trapped or betrayed by any such high-sounding phrases as States' rights...
Exultantly Mrs. Nicholson led her band of 200 Democratic Drys to the White House. There she introduced them to President Hoover as "constitutional Democrats, many of whom have come a long way to see a constitutional President." The President stood before his desk, shook hands with every woman who filed by. He kept repeating: "Very pleased to see you . . . very pleased to see you . . . very pleased...
From a distance and with a hostile Dry eye Mrs. Nicholson watched Wet Mrs. Sabin's convention. When it was over she publicly challenged Mrs. Sabin to debate Prohibition with her. She said: "No one could see your meetings and not be im pressed with the number of women of wealth present. May we ask you how many of these have felt the pinch of poverty that goes with liquor or who will be the victims if the saloon, or any other place where liquor is openly dispensed, comes back? Are we not right in saying that...
...Sabin had returned to New York, gone to bed with a bad cold when she received Mrs. Nicholson's challenge. She would have gladly accepted it, she said, had she been given sufficient notice. To the Dry leader she replied: "You express dread of liquor 'openly dispensed.' Am I to understand that the fact that at present liquor is being secretly dispensed the length and breadth of the country is a matter of indifference to you? I cannot help but be amused by your other state- ments. . . . Why is it that Prohibitionists refuse to discuss conditions as they are today...
...Apparently Mrs. Nicholson was referring to Governor Roosevelt's paralyzed legs...