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...more than a three-month supply of it on hand, but the group is happily supplied with rich husbands. If a Democratic Wet majority is returned to Congress and Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the White House, and if the party keeps its platform pledge to submit the question of Repeal to Constitutional conventions within the States, and if three-quarters of the States cancel the 18th Amendment, then the last step of the W. O. N. P. R. program will be in order. The organization pledges itself to: 1) assist in framing temperate State liquor laws, 2) insist that national...
...squarely and we commend them for their stand. The Republican party has offered a plank which is, as yet, undefined. We call upon the President, as the nominee of his party, to state clearly and plainly where he stands on this all-important question-whether for or against the repeal of the 18th Amendment." Elsewhere on the Wet front, the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment (600,000 members), oldest Wet unit, which has the support of Pierre du Pont, was biding its time, waiting for the Hoover acceptance speech before plumping for either or neither party. Book. More thoughtfully statistical...
...principles the W. C. T. U. adopted when present-day grey-haired mothers were children in short dresses." Focus. Last week Wet & Dry eyes turned to Congress, ultimate focus of their next big fight. There they beheld frothy turmoil over legalizing beer, heard noisy clamor for immediate Repeal. Beneath surface politics, however, was the solid fact that no serious move to effect a Change would or could be undertaken until after the People speak...
...Democratic party wins, the 18th Amendment is doomed and damned. ... If the Dry Democrats of the South rejected Alfred E. Smith, as they said, not on account of his religion but because he was Wet, how can they support the ticket now with both candidate and platform calling for Repeal...
...their campaign. The predominant Dry sentiment is against any third party action on the ground that it could not achieve positive results to keep the 18th Amendment intact. Dry leaders plan to work within the two major parties, trying to elect to Congress members pledged against Resubmission or Repeal, thereby blocking any change at the start. They are hopeful President Hoover will soon say something friendly about the 18th Amendment which will give them an excuse to support...