Word: anti-saloon
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...jinx that favored their candidate, assembled at Louisville, picked Representative Maurice Hudson Thatcher as their senatorial nominee. Onetime Governor Sampson, acclaiming Nominee Thatcher as an "everlasting Dry,'' key-noted thus: "We'll replace this wobbly, uncertain, barking Barkley who a few years ago was taking the Anti-Saloon League's money to make speeches and turned Wet overnight when the Vice-Presidency was dangled before his eyes. Our nominee will beat not one Barkley but four Barkleys-the Free Trade Barkley, the Protectionist Barkley, the Dry Barkley and the Wet Barkley." Nominee Thatcher was born...
...alcoholic addicts who had given up drink for one reason or another. But never from statutory compulsion. . . . We went to see Jane Addams at Hull House in Chicago. We also interviewed Volstead with no result and simply dozens of leaders of the Salvation Army, W. C. T. U. and Anti-Saloon League. . . . We encountered a lot of talk and argument but we weren't looking for arguments. We were looking for people who had been saved from drink by the Volstead Act and we didn't find...
President Hoover was particularly interested in the reaction to his change of front on Prohibition. His speech evidently split the U. S. Drys, Consolidated. The Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League declared against both Presidential candidates, pledged themselves to fight a change "every step of the way." More moderate Drys, however, began swinging in behind the Hoover candidacy on the ground that the President was against the saloon and "naked Repeal" as proposed by the Democrats. Dr. Daniel A. Poling, as head of the Allied Forces for Prohibition put his Dry organization behind the Republican...
...Reynolds campaign was greatly helped when on the eve of the North Carolina run-off the Democratic party in Chicago adopted a Repeal plank. Mr. Reynolds stood squarely on that plank. Senator Morrison stepped off, fell to political death into the arms of the Anti-Saloon League...
...Jersey, Illinois and Vermont last month plumped for resubmission or repeal. A Literary Digest poll showed preponderant wet sentiment in every State except Kansas and North Carolina. And last week John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who with his father has given $350,000 to the Anti-Saloon League, wrote Nicholas Murray Butler that the "evils" resulting from Prohibition led him now to favor repeal. Practical politicians realized that the old weasel-words about "law enforcement" would serve no longer...