Word: planked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Carver is a supporter of Hoover, and is advocating a dry ticket, believing that a wet plank either would not be acceptable to Hoover, or would seriously impair his chances of reelection. The main opponents of Professor Carver in the primary are also supporters of Hoover, but on a wet ticket...
...indicate that the party might stop weasling, might devise a new, Wetter formula at the Chicago convention to match the shifting sentiment of the past twelve years. What the formula would be was anybody's guess but there was no doubt that the idea of a referendum plank has lately gained great strength among G. O. P. leaders. Seven straws...
...Emerging from the White House, Ralph E. Williams of Oregon, vice chairman of the Republican National Committee, declared: "There is very strong agitation in favor of a Wet plank of some kind among Republicans. The party will have to adopt some kind of platform to meet the changed situation...
...From a meeting of Republican national committeemen in Washington to arrange convention details word was passed out that 25 of the 53 members of the platform committee were already Wet and ready to support a referendum plank, while at least 535 of the 1,154 delegates will take a more liberal stand on Prohibition...
...Meanwhile President Hoover, who will have to stand on any Prohibition plank carpentered by the Convention, continued diligently to pursue his policy of silent neutrality. Ever since he threw away his chance, offered by the report of the Wickersham Commission, to take a Wet stand, he has been increasingly regarded by the public as a Dry. His friends report that he is irritated by the liquor agitation, calls it "poppycock," insists that the question is one for Congress to deal with first...