Word: anti-salooner
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Died. James Cannon Jr., 79, longtime Southern Methodist bishop, Anti-Saloon Leaguer, head of the World League against Alcoholism; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Chicago. An implacable crusader, the bishop waged a lifetime campaign against "Rome and rum." For a decade, Southern politicians trembled at his disapproval. His 1928 denunciations of Al Smith helped to turn the Solid South toward Herbert Hoover. When his own church accused him of dabbling in Wall Street bucket shops, he wept publicly and pleaded for Christian forgiveness. The church forgave him but his fame began to fade. His first wife, mother of his nine children...
...superintendent of the Iowa Anti-Saloon League urged Eddie Rickenbacker "to consider the far-reaching implications of your press endorsement of whiskey for American flyers." Douglas MacArthur said he did not consider "liquor or spirituous wines as appropriate recognition for Bong's deeds...
After routine apprenticeship as prose cuting attorney and judge, he got to Congress in 1913. There he worked hard to pass the railroad eight-hour law (Adamson Act), which endeared him to labor. A personal and political dry, he was a paid speaker for the Anti-Saloon League, once traveled all the way to Stockholm for an international prohibition conference. All during Prohibition, he stuck to ice-cream sodas. But he stumped for Al Smith, backed the Democrats' repeal plank in 1932, now takes an occasional drink...
...Anti-Saloon League's George W. Crabbe argued that the liquor business is a "nonessential, luxury enterprise...
...group of resourceful drys (led by the W.C.T.U.) has continually and noisily nagged Congress for immediate nationwide prohibition. But another group, shrewdly piloted by the politically seasoned Anti-Saloon League and the potent Methodist Board of Temperance, prefers to work quietly and without publicity in a campaign to dry up individual counties through local-option laws and gradually elect Congressmen favorable to their cause. Many of the nation's 100-odd dry organizations energetically employ both techniques...