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Wayne B. Wheeler, counsel for the Anti-Saloon League, who twice gave Senator Reed tit for tat, mocking the Senator's gestures of eyebrow and cigar with his own eyebrows and a busy pencil (See PROHIBITION...
...docile about Senator James A. Reed of Missouri. Set to nose out the labyrinthine political finances of the Pennsylvania primaries (TIME May 31 et seq. THE CONGRESS,) he tested all winds eagerly for a whiff of larger game. Last fortnight his vigilance was rewarded; he coursed off after the Anti-Saloon League, in the person of its counsel, Wayne B. Wheeler, on the pretext of getting evidence of Wet moneys expended for Candidate Vare. Last week he was not astonished to find that this new quarry had a mate the gentle, bright-eyed Women's Christian Temperance Union. Swerving...
...Investment." Senator Reed later returned his attention to mild-mannered Counsel Wayne B. Wheeler of the Anti-Saloon League, asking him if he had been correctly reported in a speech three years ago to the effect that Drys had "invested" 35 millions in Prohibition. Mr. Wheeler thought that was approximately the amount, counting in all the different agencies embattled. He admitted that for "a few years" just prior to the passage of the Amendment the League's bills had come to $2,500,000 per annum. For the years 1921-25 inclusive, the national body of the League...
...Anti-Saloon League. Senator Reed called Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel and "legislative representative" of the Anti-Saloon League. The pretext for calling him was that he had sent the committee information that Wet interests had contributed to Mr. Vare's campaign but the real reason was that Senator Reed has been eager to dig into the affairs of the Anti-Saloon League. During an interval in the hearings, Mr. Wheeler looking rather worn, and wearing a too-large collar approached Mr. Reed...
Later Mr. Wheeler was called to the stand. He said he was 56, born at Brookfield, Ohio, had worked for the Anti-Saloon League since 1894, began at a salary of $100 a month but only got about a third of it, was now drawing $666 a month. Senator Reed questioned him about cases in which he had "interfered" with the prosecution of prohibition agents who were accused. Mr. Wheeler, fidgeting nervously with his glasses, said his organization tried to help those who, it believed, were "framed." Senator Reed asked how much the National Organization (exclusive of the state bodies...