Word: anti-salooner
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...decided in advance that anything less than a 2-to-1 victory for Repeal would be a moral victory for us there." He thereupon vanished in Alabama. "The Wets had the support of both the national and State administrations," observed L. E. York, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, "and ample funds supplied by the breweries and distillers." Exulting in their tenth straight victory, Wet organizations looked with optimism on the outcome of six more ratification votes this month: in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, New Hampshire, California, West Virginia. Anti-Repealists began concentrating their campaign in the arid South. They...
...principal courtroom prosecutor. He put more than a hundred "bucket shops" out of business and thereby learned the shady side of the brokerage business. He sent State Superintendent of Banks Frank Warder to Sing Sing for taking bribes in the City Trust Co. scandal. He convicted Anti-Saloon Leaguer William H. Anderson of forgery. He prosecuted bail bond racketeers, crooked milk inspectors, big-time thugs-with 80% convictions. He was in charge of the District Attorney's office in 1923 when Anna Marie ("Dot King") Keenan, Broadway "sweetie," was murdered. For days he withheld from the Press the name...
...Clarence True Wilson, Methodist moralist, and in less generous vein Dr. Francis Scott McBride for the Anti-Saloon League, promised to cooperate. Not so Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole, the bustling matriarch of the W. C. T. U., whose plan is to find horrid examples of what 3.2% beer can do and use them to club down Repeal in perhaps 16 states, three more than enough to kill it.* She replied to Crusader Clark: "I assume you wired me for publicity purposes...
...Fifth Avenue Hotel planned to convert a restaurant into an imitation sidewalk café and call it the Roosevelt Room. In Milwaukee where factory whistles and fire-engine sirens welcomed the return of beer the famed old Blatz Hotel revived its palm garden for German beer drinkers. ¶Moaned Anti-Saloon League's Francis Scott McBride: "The iron hand of the brewers is again in absolute control. . . ." ¶In Brooklyn the Kings County Retail Stationery & Newsdealers Association protested any state distributing plan which prohibited beer sales at stationery stores. ¶Manhattan's Fidelio Brewery placed a lithographing order...
Already the Anti-Saloon League was preparing to test the validity of the Cullen Act before the Supreme Court. Big question: is 3.2% beer intoxicating in fact? If so, the court would be inclined to rule that the law is unconstitutional under the 18th Amendment...