Word: anti-saloon
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...limit of gall for members to stand here and oppose the enforcement of a law we are bound to sustain. It is unfumigated gall for members to stand here and assail a patriotic organization like the Anti-Saloon League...
Twelve hundred bankers, businessmen, professors assembled at the Economics Club dinner in Manhattan last week; heard General Lincoln C. Andrews and Wayne B. Wheeler, the paid advocate of the Anti-Saloon League, say that Prohibition is here to stay whether the Wets like it or not. "And what is more," said General Andrews, "it will be hard to get a drink of real beer next season." Laughter and boos from respectable citizens greeted this pronouncement; General Andrews was forced to cut short his speech...
...barbarous and un-American answer of the Anti-Saloon League is that it makes little difference how many times a man who violates the national prohibition law is put in jeopardy for one and the same...
Alongside of the moneyed Anti-Saloon League, the finances of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment are mere elves, but they grow. Last week the Wet organization filed its report with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, announced receipts of $275,545 and expenditures of $215,070 from Jan. 1 to Oct. 1, 1926. The largest contributor was Edward S. Harkness of Manhattan, Director of the New York Central; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and many another railroad, son of the late famed oil magnate Stephen V. Harkness. Mr. Harkness gave $7,500 and loaned $2,500. His sister...
Premier Baldwin, showing the mailed fist so forcibly applied in the current coal strike, thought that, although all the members of Parliament were not associated with the Anti-Saloon League, at least the House should not let a breath of the affair get outside. It is quite a pity that with all the strength on his side, as shown by the House's vote against Salter, the Premier could not have shown more spirit in the matter either by declaring himself in favor of a cleaner Commons or of a strict laisser-faire policy in regard to the personal rights...