Word: south
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clinton Norman Howard, Chairman of the National United Committee for Law Enforcement,* at a W. C. T. U. meeting at Round Lake, N. Y.: "The people will not let their constitution be wickershamed into a squatter sovereignty hodgepodge. . . . Maryland, Wisconsin and New York are where South Carolina was in the conflict against the abolition of slavery. . . . They are the copperhead and slacker states and are more culpable in time of peace than any slacker citizen in time...
...Governor of South Carolina, after a speech by Maryland's Albert Cabell Ritchie, who was the sole Wet spokesman present, arose and thundered Bryan-esquely...
...Conference was almost disrupted when Dry Governors attempted to overturn its do-nothing tradition and have resolutions adopted calling for more law enforcement, more support of President Hoover. South Carolina's Gov. John Gardiner Richards offered such a resolution. So did Virginia's Governor Byrd and North Carolina's Governor Gardner. What the Governor of North Carolina said to the Governor of South Carolina in private was not recorded but their public attitudes emphatically tended toward lengthening the historic interval between libations...
...come from a State that rocked me in its cradle of States' rights and I stand for States' rights but the question of States' rights is not involved here. It is in the Constitution. ... I come from the great Democratic State of South Carolina but . . . the Republican party has given us a great President and I believe he is going down in history as one of the greatest Presidents [because] he stands for civic righteousness and enforcement of the law. ... I want to make this statement fearlessly while I stand on my feet: The great South...
James Cannon Jr., militant dry, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was lately revealed to have had extensive stock transactions with a bankrupt Manhattan bucketshop (TIME, July 1). Cannon critics questioned whether such dealings were worthy of a Churchman...