Word: anti-salooner
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...Moses came out, too, with some unpleasantries. He was vague about the "red hot stuff" he had sent to Zeb Vance Walser. First he said he had sent out "so much material" he really could not recall which was which. Then he said it might have been anti-Tammany or anti-saloon material.* He did not deny that it was "viciously anti-Catholic," as Mr. Raskob said it was. But he roared: "Who is this John J. Raskob that seems so agitated because a Southern Democrat has written something which I thought to be 'hot stuff...
...Klan and the Anti-Saloon League are twin calamities working for the election of the Republican national ticket. Their practices are intolerable. Their intolerance is disgraceful. They have exhibited some of the meanest motives which ever had a place in American politics. What they offer as patriotism and public morality has protected or promoted some of the worst corruption...
...York Times (Democratic) last week and deposed that of 289 inquiries he made among his customers, only seven revealed votes for Nominee Smith. Said Salesman Quincy: "Thirty-one of my customers have shown me cancelled checks they have contributed to the Republican National Committee. Seven . . . contributed to the Anti-Saloon League...
...Some uses "without political effect" to which Anti-Saloon moneys are put: publishing "a flood of pamphlets, leaflets, books and articles on the scientific, economic, sociological, hygienic and other phases of the alcohol problem"; publishing the Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem; issuing press releases; "furnishing the religious press (which reaches the great bulk of our supporters) with articles intended to answer wet propaganda"; publishing The American Issue (national monthly...
...Senator Robinson is so keen about quoting my immortal prose, here is a line for him : In the present sloppy Democratic shambles, dry ice Robinson wears the harassed look of an Anti-Saloon League sitting timorously on the edge of his chair at a bartenders' convention. Let him turn that on one of his audiences and then try to giggle out of the applause...