Word: anti-salooner
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...Literary Digest tabulated the first 291,588 answers to 20,000,000 questionnaires sent out, found 118,934 for repeal, 91,915 for modification, 80,739 for enforcement. Drys had been loudly warned by Dr. Ernest Hurst Cherrington, publicist for the Anti-Saloon League, not to vote in the Digest-poll, which he flayed as "uncontrolled, valueless." Wets accused Dr. Cherrington of trying to set up an alibi...
Next day such potent prohibitors as Francis Scott McBride, chief lobbyist for the Anti-Saloon League, Clarence True Wilson, chief lobbyist for the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, and Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole, president of the W.C. T.U., packed into the committee room to hear approvingly other witnesses defend the Dry cause...
...final, honest analysis, however, there seems to be no possible way to avoid the conclusion that prohibition in its present form is a dismal failure, and that serious effort should be made to do away with the heritage of hypocrisy left the undergraduate by his parents and the Anti-saloon League...
What brought the Pratt affair to the surface were the tattlings of one Ernest S. Braidwood, a Customs agent discharged for 'legging who joined with the Anti-Saloon League of New Jersey to block the reappointment of Col. Arthur F. Foran as Comptroller of Customs in New York. Rev. James K. Shields, the N. J. League's local chief, procured from Braidwood an affidavit which he forwarded to President Hoover as an argument against Col. Foran's reappointment. The League opposes this official because in 1928 he was reputed to have said that he would vote...
...Anti-Saloon League voted: 1) to get its friends to leave it large inheritances; 2) to oppose all referenda on Prohibition; 3) to intensify its propaganda; 4) to secure more Federal money and men for enforcement...