Word: anti-saloon
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...station on the Underground Railway, and once a sizable faculty mob swarmed ten miles to free a runaway slave from a U.S. marshal. Something in the air fed intransigence; fire-breathing Feminist Lucy Stone was a graduate (1847), and later Oberlin's rich soil of righteousness produced the Anti-Saloon League. Present-day manifestations are less obvious: a bluntly worded faculty defense of academic freedom, a tone of ineffable moral superiority in the student newspaper's lectures to the college administration...
Died. Samuel Fickel, 81, oldtime editor of the Anti-Saloon League's official publication, The American Issue; of pneumonia; in dry Westerville, Ohio...
Died. F. (for Francis) Scott McBride, 82, a leader of the Anti-Saloon League of America for 44 years; in St. Petersburg, Fla. A Presbyterian minister, McBride became a professional temperance crusader in 1911. He lamented in 1934 that the end of prohibition was resulting in "riots and bloodshed." In 1935 he proclaimed that "repeal has failed" and predicted national prohibition would be back...
When Dietrich closes her eyes, lights up a long cigarette, and croaks something about being a bad girl, she does more for vice than Prohibition or the Anti-Saloon League. In Seven Sinners she in 1940's version of the Wicked Woman and once again makes the occupation seem more than rewarding. Seven Sinners is an extremely enjoyable concoction of Asiatic intrigue and adventure; it is also a natural for Miss Dietrich's unusual virtues...
Died. William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw, 86, tub-thumping Prohibitionist, lecturer on the evils of liquor and presidential candidate on the Prohibition ticket (82,000 votes) in 1932; in Glendale, Calif. Vice President of the Georgia Anti-Saloon League, he went to Congress from Georgia in 1919, served four terms in the House. At the age of 72, he was ordained a Baptist minister and continued his attack on liquor from the pulpit, this year completed a lecture tour in 22 states and seven European countries...