Word: prohibitionâ
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...belief that, lacking profound Wet convictions, he is deliberately weaseling to woo Dry Democratic support from the South at the convention and in the election. He blocked attempts last year for a Wet declaration by the Democratic National Committee. The Roosevelt-Smith split grew out of opposing viewpoints on Prohibition???one for an honestly militant stand for repeal, the other for its subordination to economic questions...
...politicians. And without meaning to question anybody's sincerity, I may be permitted to wonder whether gentlemen who discourse so extravagantly and so passionately on the subject are not really laying down a barrage or smoke screen with which they hope to hide other issues?such, for example, as Prohibition???about which they may not think it politically wise to speak so boldly...
...Commission's only blossom in the three subsequent days of its Washington meeting was dissension over the scope of its inquiry. One group of Commissioners wanted to go to what Commissioner Mackintosh called the "guts" of Prohibition??? i. e., the enforceability of the 18th Amendment. Other commissioners wished to examine only the skin, study only enforcement procedure. When, after the first day's wrangle, Chairman Wickersham again received newsmen, his spirits seemed less buoyant. Guardedly he declared...
...nearly so outspoken as Senator Reed. The Ritchie point is states' rights; the Reed, political rancor. Yet it was after the Ritchie speech that Toastmaster Davis saw fit to depart from routine to "restore harmony." The U. S. people, said he, were divided in three classes, not two, on Prohibition???the third being "those who believe the present law is the best way to deal with this great governmental experiment, at present...
There are five members of that subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee which for the past fortnight has had before it the subject of prohibition???Senators Harreld of Oklahoma,* Walsh of Montana, Reed? of Missouri, Goff of West Virginia, Means of Colorado. But all five are rarely present. Once last week only Senator Harreld was there, and he was lounging behind his home-town newspaper while serious-minded witnesses gave testimony...