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Died. Bishop Luther Barton Wilson, 71, for 16 years (until retiring last month) Bishop of the New York Area of the Methodist Episcopal Church, President of the Board of Foreign Missions, onetime (1901-21) president Anti-Saloon League; of heart disease; in Baltimore...
Backed by many a rich man, the Anti-Saloon League fostered Prohibition. Backed by a few libertarians, the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment was founded to alter Prohibition. Last winter the A. A. P. A. announced that it would expand and grow potent under the leadership of a new chief, Major Henry Hastings Curran of Manhattan (TIME...
...names of the first 70 eminent citizens to be installed on the A. A. P. A.'s directorate, which is to number 100. Dry citizens were startled to discover the calibre of the persons whom Major Curran had been able to enlist. The most prominent patron of the Anti-Saloon League lately has been Sebastian Spering Kresge, the 5-and-io-cent man. Now, as antagonists of Mr. Kresge, the A. A. P. A. points...
Sebastian Spering Kresge (5 & 10 cent stores), giver of gold to the Anti-Saloon League, testified in his counter divorce suit against Mrs. Kresge that she offered to bear him a child if he would pay her $10,000,000. "At that time [April, 1925]," complained Mr. Kresge, "she took a Bible* in her hand, shook it in my face and said: 'I swear to God if you don't do what I want there will be the biggest exposé-the biggest scandal you ever heard of.' " Mr. Kresge did not give...
...Caldwell, N. J., the members of the First Presbyterian Church met to decide what to do with their benevolence budget of $5,500. By a vote that was three less than unanimous, they decided to discontinue their annual contribution of $250 to the New Jersey Anti-Saloon League. "The League," they said, "is no longer a charitable organization...