Word: options
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is a popular belief that Prohibition was imposed upon the country during the War, while a majority of our voters were unable to register their disapproval. But the plain facts are that more than two-thirds of the local option districts of the United States were dry long before the war and that the dry Federal Act was but the national and natural expression of that dry local option majority. The people of these same districts are still dry and are not going to change constitution or legislation until they have lost faith in Prohibition as a remedy...
...Even Mr. Smith's plan of personal liberty and States' rights and State local option while perfectly sound Democratic doctrine is not in line with modern thought in sumptuary legislation. The people of the United States have passed the strictly States' rights construction period and there have always been definite limitations on personal liberty. Our country has developed from a federation of loosely linked States into a closely knit nation. The Constitution has given the Federal Government the right to legislate for the nation on the liquor question and the Federal Government probably will continue to possess...
...attack he had yet suffered in his greatest campaign, voters had an opportunity to scrutinize the subject-matter of the controversy. Sample items of Assemblyman Smith's record of votes (1903-15) are as follows: Liquor A vote (1904) to except hotels from the provisions of a local option bill. A vote (1905) to except New York City from the places affected by a bill giving local option to districts where 40% of the voters might petition for it. Also, three votes against this whole bill at various stages of its passage. A vote (1906) against a bill providing...
...save the local unions in the one State where they had not suffered inroads that the Illinois men agitated for local option on the Jacksonville agreement, and got it. WThether or not the action came too late to help locals in other States, whether International President Lewis had carried his doggedness irretrievably far, remained to be seen. The first overture for local readjustment, by Ohio's union miners to Ohio's operators, was flatly rebuffed last week. President S. H. Robbins of the Ohio Coal Operators Association said: ". . . not interested . . . will have no further dealings with the United...
...striking example of disorganization, is worth consideration. A Freshman course takes the student over a few high spots in literature which include entirely distinct and separate introductions to Shakespeare, Carlyle, Ruskin and a few others, studied without reference to their relative importance or period. The student may at his option, follow this by a slightly more coherent Sophomore course in which he begins the process over again, landing on a few other high spots missed in the previous series of leaps and bounds.. But any time after his Freshman Year he may secure the additional eighteen required credit hours...