Word: voter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republicans, demanded that the electorate should vote yes-or-no on repealing the 18th Amendment. Republicans, more numerous, more noisy, succeeded in making it a question of retaining the law. Democrats complained that, since yes is more easy to say than no, the Dry side might win through sheer voter-thoughtlessness...
Many a U. S. voter has been held in line for Prohibition by the argument that Big Business supported it. In the 1928 campaign, Nominee Hoover got five tycoons to uphold his Dry stand to every one Nominee Smith got to flay the 18th Amendment. As long as tycoons pontificated in favor of Prohibition, smaller men chimed in with their approval...