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...Some of these labor organizations are beginning to take on the color of the old Anti-Saloon crowd in its palmy days before Repeal. They have the same kind of political and financial power to coerce government agencies, to threaten individual Congressmen and to frighten liberal critics by labeling them as opponents of a great moral cause. . . . Independent businessmen, consumers and farmers have had to sit back in enraged helplessness while labor used coercion for the following purposes: Price control, eliminating cheap methods of distribution, creating local trade barriers by restricting the use of materials made outside the state, preventing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Folklore of Unionism | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

...Methodist Bishops who wore a clerical collar, served churches in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Rome, Italy, was elected a Bishop in 1916. Since 1939 he served as resident Bishop of the Washington Area. A militant prohibitionist, he was once president of New York's Anti-Saloon League, was famed among Methodists for his forthright sermons, his uncompromising attitudes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Final Landing | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

...Anti-Saloon League's 50th anniversary, 87-year-old co-founder Dr. Howard Hyde Russell clung fast to his optimism: "This country will be dry by 1950-and I will live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 17, 1943 | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

...accord with anti-saloon propaganda, most citizens regard alcoholism as a moral offense; it is actually a disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drunkenness, 1943 | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...founder and U.S. director of the World Prohibition Federation, Brother Gaston is a spokesman for the W.C.T.U., the Anti-Saloon League and some 100 other temperance societies. He has kneeling space in the House Office Building by permission of his good friend Ulysses S. Guyer, dry Congressman from dry Kansas, who rises occasionally on the House floor to tack (so far, in vain) a prohibition joker on to other legislation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIQUOR: Return of the Drys | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

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