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...matter of fact, Francis Scott McBride is no more related to Francis Scott Key than he is to Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Strange things have happened in the home of the brave and the land of the free, but for the general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America to be related to the author of This Side of Paradise is a little too bizarre to be true. The author of Flappers and Philosophers and The Great Gatsby is indeed a connection of the author of "The Star-Spangled Banner." But not so the Anti-Saloon League Superintendent...
This confusion of names and traditions arose last week out of a comparatively routine matter. With the passing of Lawyer Wayne B. Wheeler (TIME, Sept. 12, Milestones), some one had to take over his labors as the Anti-Saloon League's representative in the lobbies of Congress. The Anti-Saloon League spent 50 millions putting prohibition on paper as the law of the land. It has been spending about two millions per annum ever since to prod politicians into enforcing the law of the land. Enforcement having made scarcely any headway lately, and many a politician who is neither...
...McBride, as active lobbyist of the largest volunteer auxiliary the U. S. government possesses, will now have to buttonhole politicians and admonish them himself. Dr. McBride, a United Presbyterian preacher and long head of the Anti-Saloon League in woefully wet Illinois, will now have to battle singlehanded the causes of "crooks and bribery," which U. S. Prohibition Commissioner Lowman says are "rampant" in the Federal enforcement system. Last week, Dr. McBride was known to be picking a band of dry workers to rush into southern and midwestern states whence ominous sentiment has been issuing in favor...
History. In May, the Administration both vexed and pleased the politically militant Anti-Saloon League and its friends. Roy Asa Haynes, Acting Commissioner of Prohibition, whom the League admired, was replaced by Dr. James M. Doran as full-fledged Commissioner. Dr. Doran is a quiet man. The League could not be sure he would be militant enough...
Died. Wayne B. Wheeler, 57, famed general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League of America; at Battle Creek (Mich.) sanitarium; of kidney ailment...