Word: anti-salooner
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United Presbyterians. At their General Assembly, continuing into last week at Des Moines, the United Presbyterian Church of North America was pleased that in the "thorough investigation recently conducted by the Senate Lobby Committee (TiME, May 19) the integrity of the Anti-Saloon League had once more been publicly confirmed." General superintendent of the League is Francis Scott McBride. ordained United Presbyterian minister. The Assembly was opposed to "drinking scenes in the movies showing the use of intoxicants as attractive, adventurous and fashionable" and to "insinuations favorable to intoxicating liquors in the fiction pages of leading magazines." It also condemned...
...went the Senate Lobby Committee through the Prohibition phase of its investigations. Last week's subjects for scrutiny: the anti-Smith movement of 1928; the anti-Saloon League of America. Developments...
...Lobbyists." When Rev. Francis Scott McBride, D.D., general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America, appeared upon the stand, he said: "There is no doubt we are lobbyists." He explained that the Anti-Saloon League, exclusive of State branches, spent $273,049.14 last year, that a deficit of $3,132.32, the first in many a year, resulted. The League was given $685 in bad checks in 1929. He balked at disclosing the contributors to the League lest they be "annoyed" by publicity. Lobbyist Mc-Bride's exposition of the League's activities...
...Born of God." Wisconsin Wet Senator Blaine found a passage in a recent speech in which Dr. McBride had said: "The Anti-Saloon League was born...
...McBride (rising angrily): I said the Anti-Saloon League was born of God, is led by Him, and will fight on as long as He leads...