Word: anti-salooner
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...Scion of the rich O N T thread* family, he was born in Newark, learned law at Harvard, served in the A. E. F. He lives quietly in Princeton, has not taken a drink since Prohibition became law. In 1925 President Coolidge appointed him to the bench after the Anti-Saloon League's late great Wayne Bidwell Wheeler had indorsed him as a thoroughgoing Dry. A natural scholar, he assembled years of reading and research in his decision. Thirty-three of his decisions have been carried to higher courts; only three have been reversed. Appeal. Attorney General Mitchell immediately...
First the Drys met as members of the National Temperance Council. Then overnight they shuffled offices and titles and became the National Conference of Organizations Supporting the 18th Amendment. Present were all the prime professional Prohibitors-Francis Scott McBride (Anti-Saloon League), Clarence True Wilson (Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals), Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole (Women's Christian Temperance Union), Ernest Hurst Cherrington (World League Against Alcoholism), Oliver Stewart (Flying Squadron Foundation), Daniel Alfred Poling (World Christian Endeavor), Clinton Howard (National United Committee on Law Enforcement), Arthur James Barton (Southern Baptists), William Sheafe Chase (International Reform Bureau...
...Anti-Saloon League of New Jersey arranged to have Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, at a future date, answer six questions anent Prohibition. Last week Mr. Edison declared: "[Senator Dwight Whitney] Morrow knows nothing of the business and industrial world. For many years he has been cooped up in an office, away from the workingman. When he demands Repeal he doesn't know what he's talking about. . . . Prohibition is eternally correct. And even if the 18th Amendment is lost, the people will battle...
League. In Washington, Superintendent F. Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League announced that his organization would raise $5,000,000 to spend during the coming year-$3,500,000 more than it spent last year. He also hinted that a "committee of 15 industrialists" might be formed to match the prestige of the Wet du Ponts and John Jacob Raskob. He published a list of 25 businessmen "determined that the Dry cause shall have the fair trial which it merits." Most notable name on this list: H. W. Hoover (no kin), vacuum cleaner man of North Canton, Ohio. Other...
Herald. In Manhattan, Editor Stanley Hoflund High of the Christian Herald (monthly) assured members of the Anti-Saloon League: "The fate of Prohibition will be the fate of President Hoover...