Word: anti-salooner
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...Congress filled the air. The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment reported that it had spent the whacking sum of $385,392 in the first five months of this year, was prepared to make a million-dollar outlay in its 1930 campaign to foster the movement for a Change. The Anti-Saloon League, taking the defensive, declared: "The Wets have forced the issue [now] more clearly drawn than at any time since the coming of Prohibition. It is a poor year for wobblers...
Colorado. The political grip of Senator Lawrence Cowle Phipps was broken when Republican voters defeated William Van Derveer Hodges, his candidate to succeed himself, and gave nomination to George Hamlin Shaw, Denver attorney. Onetime Treasurer of the Republican National Committee, Mr. Hodges had the support of the Anti-Saloon League. Nominee Shaw...
...glove is cast. The words yesterday of F. Scott McBride, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, that the prohibition issue is "more clearly drawn than at anytime since the coming of prohibition" is steadily growing more apparent to the American citizenry. After ten years of a notable experiment in which one thousand lives, millions of dollars, racketeering, and the worst corruption of public office in the history of the United States, have all been heaped helter-skelter in the crucible of the experimenters, with a new code of lawlessness and immorality as the only product, "the time has come...
...Republican Senatorial nomination: George H. Shaw, William Van Derveer Hodges, onetime treasurer of the Republican National Committee. Shaw supporters charged Candidate Hodges with excessive expenditures. Another accusation is that Candidate Hodges bought 300 shares of Fitzsimmons Oil & Leasing Co. stock from Rev. Arthur V. Finchis, superintendent of the Colorado Anti-Saloon League and received a "satisfactory" (Dry) rating from the League whereas Mr. Shaw who refused to buy such stock was rated "unsatisfactory." Prohibitor Finchis was said to get a 25% commission on all stock sold. Many another Colorado official, rated Dry by the Anti-Saloon, was suspected of having...
Chairman Fess was once a Wet himself. He went Dry politically only when Ohio did. When President Hoover picked him, a staid Anti-Saloon Leaguer, to head the national committee, many an observer concluded that the President was preparing to seek re-election in 1932 as a thoroughgoing Dry, was already consolidating the Dry forces in command of the national machine. It was even suspected that this move was designed to block the rising power and prestige of that potent Wet presidential possibility, Dwight Whitney Morrow, Republican Senatorial nominee in New Jersey. The Grand Old Party might, it seemed, become...