Word: anti-salooner
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...subject in which citizens are actually interested. It contains three questions of a political nature (party plank, law enforcement, modification by states) and a fourth question aimed directly at the Candidates' liquor views. It was upon this fourth question that Candidate Willis, a boom-booming champion of the Anti-Saloon League, was expected to become magnificently resonant...
There were two questions. This was the first: Did Sebastian Spering Kresge, multi-millionaire proprietor of 5 & 10 cent stores, famed philanthropist and supporter of the Anti-Saloon League, devout Methodist Episcopalian churchman, commit a breach of conduct with Miss Gladys Ardelle Fish, with whom he arranged a rendezvous at the door of a fashionable Manhattan Church, and with whom detectives later discovered him to be consorting in a nearby apartment? The answer to this question, determined last week by the judicial decision upon Mrs. Kresge's uncontested suit for divorce, was yes. The second question, raised...
...Coolidge. The candidacy of Senator Willis is a phenomenon arising full-bodied from the Harding legend and native pomposity. It has no significance outside the borders of Ohio, where it serves only as a frock-coated obstacle (composed half of the Anti-Saloon League and half of what was once the "Ohio Gang,"* ) in Candidate Hoover's way. Far more obstructive to Hooverism was a meeting last week in Manhattan of G. O. Politicians who professed to believe that President Coolidge might yet be forced to run. Among these professionals were National G. O. P. Chairman William Morgan Butler...
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. Lately, the A. A. P. A. has attracted rich backers (TIME, Dec. 12). Last week, the A.A.P.A. announced "the enlargement and expansion of the organization in preparation for future campaigns...
...lead the A. A. P. A.'s countercampaign against what has been called the "supergovernment" of the Anti-Saloon League, the A. A. P. A. installed an executive in a newly created position of president. The new man is Major Henry Hastings Curran, able lawyer, onetime (1920-21) Borough President of Manhattan, onetime (1923-26) U. S. Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island, N. Y. Major Curran will be the lieutenant of Captain William H. Stayton, who remains Chairman of the A. A. P. A. Board of Directors...