Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Much of the present prosperity is due to prohibition. . . . One man said today, if the Democrats won, nobody would have the price to buy a drink, anyhow...
...recalled that William Howard Taft promised revision of the wool tariff in 1908, that President Taft later excoriated as "indefensible" the helpful wool schedules of the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill. In short, before Mr. Hunneman would give money to Hooverism, he demanded a declaration from Mr. Hoover on the present wool tariff which, according to Mr. Hunneman, strikes manufacturers as a virtual embargo...
...Democratic convention, where the present tension about Prohibition began to become national, the Drys were so much in the majority that there never was any serious likelihood of the party adopting a Wet plank. The law-enforcement plank that was adopted omitted a declaration against modification of the Prohibition laws for two reasons...
...nominee's reiteration of his pledge to enforce the law if elected could only be accepted, by Democrats, as the word of an honest man. His reiteration of his disbelief in the present form of Prohibition was neither startling nor offensive to sincere Prohibitionists in the party. They had known his position. They honored his candor. They doubted his power to change...
Practically all such votes will, however, cancel each other, as required by the law of equal chances. The weighty, decisive body of votes will be moved by instinct. In the last analysis, such issues as the campaign will present will sum up in two questions which instinct alone can answer...