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...send him into Lake Erie." W. J. Bryan: "No matter which party wins, this country stays dry forever." More than a thousand delegates to the convention assembled in a driving rain before the White House and sang hymns-Onward Christian Soldiers, etc. The President appeared on the portico and Pussyfoot Johnson pledged to the President the cooperation of those present in enforcing Prohibition. Mr. Coolidge spoke: "It is a satisfaction to receive the assurances of such a body of men and women that they have a firm determination to abide by the laws of the land, and that they propose...
William Eugene (" Pussyfoot") Johnson: "In Kansas City, Mo., I declared: 'The liquor situation is getting better. Every country in the world is watching America...
...Begs Cambridge men not to mob Sims", reads a caption in yesterday's paper. But the circumstances are not so alarming as they might seem; the Admiral is not threatened with the fate of "Pussyfoot" Johnson. If he is manhandled at all, it will be because the over-enthusiastic Englishmen of Cambridge have once again forgotten their sense of propriety. The Senior Proctor, who, it would seem, is the University's chief guardian of manners, has written to an undergraduate weekly, reminding the students that two years ago they "did in fact cause inconvenience and embarrassment to certain distinguished soldiers...
...Scotch are proverbially slow in realizing a joke and many other matters. But they have now waked up to the insidious inroads of the "Pussyfoot" campaign for prohibition in their bonnie land. Long advertisements with two grinning black cats at top and bottom are confronting the readers of Scottish newspapers demanding "a firm stand for self-determination" and in asking, in bold, black type. "Why not prohibit Pusayfoot?" Scotch blood is running hot over the sheer intemperance of the prohibi...
...COUNTERSIGN -- "Down With Pussyfoot...