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...exclusive Century Club, with a $10 check. First day's collections: $197.50. Campaign budget: $1,500,000. Two days later Nominee Roosevelt went to Sea Girt, N. J.. where Boss Frank Hague had massed 100,000 Democrats to hear him speak on Prohibition. Flaying the Republican plank for being "long, indirect, ambiguous, insincere, false,'' the Democratic nominee declared: "Words upon words, a dense cloud of words! . . . Senator Borah said it sounded Wet to him. President Butler said the words were Dry." Governor Roosevelt charged his opponent with using "pussycat words" in his acceptance speech and deliberately...
...Yorkers may pay a nickel to ride in the big, shiny new cars. But by law the system must be self-supporting within three years, and Mayor Walker's administration fears that if operated independently it will lose money, thereby losing also the cherished 5? fare, biggest plank in Tammany's political platform...
...party's platform. I stand squarely upon it?not with one foot on it and one foot on the floor. . . . Although I didn't succeed in getting into the platform a plank for insurance of bank deposits in banks which are members of the Federal Reserve system, I intend to work for such insurance, if elected. I propose to fight for an adequate tariff to protect the oil industry of this State. Twenty-one cents per barrel is wholly inadequate...
...Sham." As Dry as ever was Candidate McAdoo early last year before the Wet wave began to engulf national politics. At that time he solemnly pontificated: "Relegalizing liquor will not put food into a single hungry mouth. ... To make liquor the chief plank in the next national platform is to fight a sham battle because the 18th Amendment is here to stay and the quicker we recognize it the better." This year when the deluge started, Mr. McAdoo became less sure of the permanence of the 18th Amendment. He commenced mumbling the familiar weasel: "Referendum." After his party declared...
...regular party leader. On Prohibition the Senator wooed the Wets with talk of Resubmission, then the Drys with a declaration against Repeal. Most likely beneficiary of these Shortridgean straddles is Mr. Tubbs who stands to gain "regular" votes on the World Court, Wet votes on his outright Repeal plank. Energetic Candidate Tubbs has, during his canvass, startled many a back-countryman by dropping down realistically in remote corners of the State in his autogyro to hold rallies...