Word: yes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yes!" she sighed. "We are gullible in Pennsylvania...
...Ella George, of Beaver Falls, Pa., president of the Pennsylvania W. C. T. U., an ingenuous, grandmotherly person with a quick smile and cheerful voice, readily took the stand and answered the Senator's questions. "Oh, yes," she said brightly, "the ladies of the W. C. T. U. had stumped for Governor Pinchot willingly at $5 per day, paid by him. They had written the voters letters about his splendid Dry record. They had drummed up money at church meetings and by speeches...
...Senator pressed his quest farther back in history. "Oh, yes," Mrs. George replied, the antique cameo pin on her bosom rising upon a swell of honest pride, the W. C. T. U. had gone to the Governor's assistance long ago; in 1923, when the Legislature refused to vote him $250,000 to enforce Prohibition. She had gone to the Governor personally and told him that she and her colleagues would get that money for him. They had called their fund the "Governor's Enforcement Fund" and this was how it had been spent...
...George, glad for her good works, replied: "Oh, yes! I was there lobbying. They call me a sideliner. . . . We have an office in the Capitol Building and we employed clerks, and bought furniture and supplies and have spent some money for printing in cases in the Supreme Court...
...yes!" said cheerful Mrs. George...