Word: yost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Fess could not make the party Dry by word, he could by deed. He promptly appointed Mrs. Lenna Lowe Yost, potent Washington lobbyist for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, to be director of the important Women's Division of the Republican National Committee, vice Mrs. Louise M. Dodson of Iowa, resigned. Mrs. Yost, a sister-in-law of Fielding Harris ("Hurry Up") Yost, athletic director at the University of Michigan, was a student under Senator Fess when he was professor of law at Ohio Northern University. She moved to West Virginia, entered politics as a feminist. She headed...
...sister-in-law, Mrs. Lenna Lowe Yost, stage-manager of Dry witnesses before the Committee. Fielding Harris ("Hurry Up") Yost, famed as University of Michigan football coach, sent this message for inclusion in the testimony: "College youth in America are not drinking as much as they did in pre-Prohibition days. No one is entirely satisfied with present conditions. ... It is unfortunate certain people of standing by example furnish a leadership to youth in law violation...
Stage Manager. To marshal Dry witnesses and their testimony was the work of Mrs. Lenna Lowe Yost, chairman of the Association of Organizations in Support of the Eighteenth Amendment, Washington agent (lobbyist) for the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Able, smiling, determined, she stage-managed the Dry testimony from the wings of the committee room, sent her witnesses out to tell their stories, did not take the stage herself...
...Pepper & Ginger." Between the sessions of the committee hearing, Mrs. Yost mustered a company of women to present to the committee this week at a special "Ladies' Day." She promised to put more "pepper and ginger" into the Dry testimony hereafter...