Word: respected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prohibition enactments and his comments thereon, I regard Gov. Smith's acceptance speech as a convincing and able deliverance. That he will give us an effective enforcement of Prohibition as long as it is the law no one can justly doubt, after noting his declaration in that respect. I oppose and shall continue to oppose the changes he has suggested in the case of Prohibition, but I shall not permit my devotion to that great reform to blind me to the fact that other questions are calling imperatively for solution...
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Prohibition: "The President of the United States has two constitutional duties with respect to prohibition. The first is embodied in his oath of office. If, with one hand on the Bible and the other hand reaching up to Heaven, I promise the people of this country that 'I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, you may be sure that I shall live up to that oath to the last degree...
...young men and women throughout this land know the anxiety and worry which has been brought to them by their children's use of liquor in a way which was unknown before prohibition. I believe in reverence for law. Today disregard of the prohibition laws is insidiously sapping respect for all law. I raise, therefore, what I profoundly believe to be a great moral issue involving the righteousness of our national conduct and the protection of our children's morals...
...Anti-Saloon League has collected more than $70,000,000 to make bootlegging and moonshining one of the big, safe, profitable institutions. . . . The fanatical fervor of the Anti-Saloon League for the bone-dry law that has popularized drinking and upset our nation-old standard of respect for law, is due to the financial rewards they pay themselves out of the money they get for falsely representing that Prohibition is an unqualified success...