Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Social Drinkers. To prove that polite society hostesses really object to serving guests liquor, Mrs. Ruth G. Knowles Strawbridge, matronly Philadelphia socialite, took the stand to tell of her referendum letter among the "socalled better class." She sent out 2,300 queries to hostesses (TIME, July 1). Said she: " I found that these society women regarded liquor drinking at private gatherings as an unutterable nuisance. ... A favorite theme was that of the expense and the great disgrace of maintaining relations with bootleggers." Mrs. Strawbridge declared she received 1,337 responses opposing wet social gatherings, 247 in favor of maintaining them...
...renomination. Senator Gould's candidate: Congressman Wallace Humphrey White Jr. of Lewiston, co-author of the Dill-White Radio Law, of the Jones-White Shipping Law. Opposing Mr. White in the June primary will be insurgent one-time Governor Ralph Owen Brewster, victor in Maine's waterpower referendum last summer (TIME, Sept...