Word: anti-saloon
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...Governor Ely's plan to force Massachusetts to be the first to ratify the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment is unseemly in view of the grave consequences and responsibility involved," declared A. J. Davis, head of the Massachusetts Anti-Saloon League, in an interview last night...
Died. Rev. Dr. Harry Malcolm Chalfant, 63, a co-founder of the Anti-Saloon League; of pneumonia; in Washington...
...Senate in 1916 when Indiana's Benjamin Shively suddenly died. There as an Old Guardsman he has served continuously since. Twice he defeated the late Thomas Taggart, Indiana's Democratic boss, to hold his seat. For political support he has shrewdly ridden every popular wind, from the Anti-Saloon League to the Ku Klux Klan which has blown over the Indiana electorate. A fixture at most G. O. P. national conventions since 1912, he passively hoped for the presidential nomination in 1920 and again in 1924, was Indiana's favorite son against Herbert Hoover...
...Last week the Indiana Anti-Saloon League endorsed President Hoover for reelection...
...Congress: Succeeding the late great Ollie James in the House, he helped to put through the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act. A Methodist Dry, he was not above accepting fees (called an "honorarium") for making speeches for the Anti-Saloon League. As a member of the Interstate Commerce Committee he was interested in railroad labor (Howell-Barkley Bill). His measure, a forerunner of the Railway Labor Act, was not passed but the vote on it a decade ago still serves organized Labor as a political index to determine its Congressional friends and foes. In 1926 he was elected...