Word: anti-salooner
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...Anti-Salooners. "The strategy we should employ today is to arouse our people and get them into the fight. Get the church people at the bat. Let them have their innings. . . . The Anti-Saloon League and the W. C. T. U. have never been and never will be supergovernment.* But we have said to the people that the time has come to take our government out of the hands of the bootleggers and put it back where it belongs." So said Superintendent Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League last month. Last week there were rumblings among Anti-Salooners...
...raised $250,000 for a "Governor's Enforcement Fund" after the Legislature had refused to vote money for Governor Gifford Pinchot to enforce Prohibition. The W. C. T. U. had an office in the State Capitol and paid for prosecutions brought in the name of Pennsylvania. National Anti-Saloon funds for assisting Prohibition enforcement from 1921 to 1925 were about $500,000 per annum-exclusive of millions raised by state Leagues. (TIME, July...
...What the Anti-Saloon League has done, the Association against the Prohibition Amendment seeks to undo. What the late Wayne B. Wheeler was to Dryness, Captain William H. Stayton is to Wetness. Captain Stayton, an ex-Navy man now in the shipping business at Baltimore, is less vocal than was Mr. Wheeler. But Captain Stayton has been working away "patiently" for eight years as the brain and muscle of the A. A. P. A. Now & again he is heard from, as he was last week...
...Captain Stayton bowed to his chief foe. "The Anti-Saloon league is as afraid of a referendum as a woman is of a mouse...
...Superintendent McBride of the Anti-Saloon League bowed to Captain Stayton and the A. A. P. A.: "They can get it [U. S. sentiment on liquor] for 50c in any good almanac or other compilation of the returns of last election...