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Reason. On May 24, 1930, the Washington state Republican convention, at Bellingham, adopted a plank calling for the repeal of the Amendment. Also swerved from Hoover leadership by opposing entrance into World Court...
...this campaign he dubbed himself "Farmer Jim." He promised two governors for the price of one, "Ma" in office, "Farmer Jim" in the offices. Publisher Sterling is Governor Dan Moody's Chairman of the Texas State Highway Commission. This was his first campaign for public office. His main plank was to spend $300.000.000 in road bonds. "Farmer Jim" made the amount and purpose seem horrible. Democrats heeded his eloquent denunciations, rather than Governor Dan Moody's exhortations for Candidate Sterling. Governor Moody, with two terms in office, had decided not to make a third effort...
...buzz of voices ceased in the hotel room; the door opened; committeemen came out. "Did you ...?'' newsgatherers asked. "Was the Morrow plank . . . ? Did Mr. Morrow...
...plank which soon followed was a close paraphrase of that speech, only notable omission being Mr. Morrow's politically revolutionary aphorism: "Prohibition . . . is a question which constantly confuses moral principles with the art of government'' (TIME, May 26). Excerpts from the plank...
Senator Grundy: "I am not satisfied with the proposed new tariff law because I do not believe it is a fulfillment of the 1928 tariff plank of the Republican Party. . . . The method by which the bill was drawn up never met with my approval. ... In secret [committee] sessions the provisions were drawn up with little or no regard for the facts. ... I know of no other tariff revision where the administrative features were considered in the light of party politics. . . . On these principal reasons, I base my dissatisfaction with...