Word: anti-salooner
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...after the seat. Texas' House of Representatives petitioned Governor W. Lee ("Pass-The-Biscuits-Pappy") O'Daniel to appoint himself for the 90-day interim before an election must be held. Pappy held his peace, and pondered. Morris Sheppard was buried. The little people of Texas, the Anti-Saloon League of America, the high command of the Army mourned him most. They knew him best...
Birthday. Dr. Howard Hyde Russell, co-founder of the Anti-Saloon League, who said: "I'm confident this movement will be successful during my lifetime"; his 85th...
...Heard Bishop Ralph Spaulding Cushman of St. Paul, Minn., president of the Anti-Saloon League, announce that a war chest of $1,500,000 would be raised to "attack the liquor interests with renewed energy." The Board of Temperance noted with alarm the increasing consumption of wine: "Wherever wine has gotten a stranglehold, there is little hope for early release. ... It will surely destroy the French people...
...deduct National Guard fees, graft money, expenses of lobbying for legalized horse racing, contributions to birth-control or anti-saloon leagues; nor can you deduct money spent in preparation of your income tax return...
...conventions. Before 1932 he was just a member of the Democratic minority in the Senate who had spellbound his colleagues on Drought in 1930. As a member of the House he had helped foster the Prohibition Amendment and the Volstead Act. He had been a paid speaker for the Anti-Saloon League, but in 1928, when drink returned to popularity, he stumped for Al Smith, later helped write the 21st (Repeal) Amendment. Now he even takes a toddy himself. Labor knows him as one of its early champions, but he voted for coal and oil tariffs before the New Deal...