Word: anti-saloon
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...Bulkley ran for the Senate as an out-and-out wet in the state of Ohio, home of the Anti-Saloon League, winning from the dry candidate, Roscoe, in a contest to fill the vacancy left by the death of Senator Burton. He will be up for reelection this year...
...sections of the U. S. The storm which lashed the banking structure of New England blew itself out in Hartford fortnight ago when three institutions suspended, including the $20,000,000, 80-year-old City Bank & Trust Co. Other failures of the fortnight included Bank of Westerville, Ohio (with Anti-Saloon League funds); First National Bank of Gary, Ind. (leaving but one bank there, secure with U. S. Steel Corp. backing). In South Carolina there was a wave of failures following the crash of Peoples State Bank with $24,443,000 in deposits, 43 branches. Banks in such communities...
...appropriation sponsored by the committee's chairman, Senator Robert Marion La Follette Jr. of Wisconsin who likes to play a sort of political Robin Hood; 2) a $375.000.000 appropriation backed by Senator Edward Prentiss Costigan of Colorado, Virginia-born Harvardman, old-time reformer, Bull Mooser, Anti-Saloon Leaguer, longtime (1917-28) Tariff Commissioner. Having no stake in the proceedings, the rest of the committee went home for the holidays, leaving Senators La Follette and Costigan to prepare what amounted to a record on reasons for relief...
...later to become preoccupied with local history, with Springfield's Abraham Lincoln), he studied for the ministry at Hiram College (Ohio) then at the Chicago Art Institute and the New York School of Art. From 1905 to 1910 he did Y. M. C. A. work, lectured for the Anti-Saloon League. Rugged, unkempt, Poet Lindsay liked to vagabond about the land, trading verses for food and shelter. His rules for hoboes: Be "neat, deliberate, chaste and civil . . . preach the gospel of beauty," avoid cities, cash, baggage, railroads; ask for dinner at 10:45 a. m., supper, lodging and breakfast...
...first as a student at Northwestern Female College (now part of Northwestern University), later on the faculty of Evanston College for Ladies (then as now also part of the university), finally becoming the college's president and professor of esthetics. But it was her student days, not her anti-saloon activities, that brought Prohibitionist Willard into the news last week...