Word: anti-saloon
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Drys. Most famed of lobbyists are Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Board of Temperance and Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League...
...while conversing; messing in the kitchen; carrying love charms; wearing No. 17 celluloid collars on No. 15 neckbands; general orneriness. Prominent in an alleged membership of 400,000 are Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr.; of California, Speaker John Nance Garner, Senator Huey Pierce Long of Louisiana, the entire Anti-Saloon League...
...would have to take the consequences. That's all." This White House visitation prompted Rollin Kirby to produce for the New York World-Telegram a cartoon of the kind that made him famous: Mr. Hoover, hot and worried in his shirt sleeves, at an old fashioned tub scrubbing "Anti-Saloon Linen" while a severe old woman, her arms crossed, stands by to keep him at his job. Title: "Our Man!" ¶The temperature rose to 78° in Washington one day last week. The air-conditioning machine was turned on at the White House. ¶Thirty-five newspaper editors...
...Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, firm teetotaler, proposed a Constitutional amendment modifying or repealing the 18th Amendment, ratification to be by a majority of the electors of three-fourths of the States. Two days later Bishop James Cannon Jr. approved the Byrd plan before a meeting of the Anti-Saloon League at Richmond. Day after that Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde returned from the Missouri State Republican convention and endorsed that body's appeal that Congress call a national Constitutional convention on Prohibition...
...Ohio is the birthplace of the Anti-Saloon League. A majority of Ohio's convention delegates will...