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Ohio. A particularly. hard blow to President Hoover, the Republican National Committee and the Anti-Saloon League of America was the defeat of Dry Republican Senator (by appointment) Roscoe Conkling McCulloch by Wet Democrat Robert Johns Bulkley. Senator McCulloch's fuss-budgety little colleague, Senator Simeon Davison Fess dropped his duties as G. O. P. national chairman to campaign himself hoarse for the Republican ticket. Senator-elect Bulkley (whose friends already talk loudly of him as a presidential possibility) won urban votes largely by a demand for the repeal of the 18th Amendment. His Wetness pulled his Dry friend George...
...CRIMSON refers to the Police Commissioner "who has been astonishingly vigorous since he has been in power," under whose administration took place a total relaxation of law and order during the stay of the Legion. This situation calls for the attention of the Anti-Saloon League and other bodies interested in the Eighteenth Amendment. It has been suspected that one important reason for the failure of enforcement of the Dry Law is the fact that the Drys themselves do not wish it enforced when the recoil would be too violent...
...Crusader Sabin's mother (TIME, June 10), has about $200,000 for this campaign. The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, headed by Major Henry Hastings Curran (TIME, April 28, et seq.~), already has spent about $600,000. Estimate of organized Wet expenditures this year: $ 1,000,000. Estimated Anti-Saloon League campaign -expenditures: about...
Emmett McBride, 50, brother of Rev. Francis Scott McBride, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, was jailed in Washington for passing a worthless $35 check. Superintendent McBride called his brother's case "one of irresponsibility running over a period of more than 20 years...
...votes Dry, drinks Dry, supports the Anti-Saloon League...