Word: anti-salooner
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...home at Hillsboro, O., for rest. Washington, during his absence, buzzed with rumors that he would be a candidate for the next Republican nomination for Governor of Ohio. His qualifications: 1) a close friendship with the late President Harding; 2) dryness enough to make him acceptable to the Anti-Saloon League and the two Ohio Senators, Willis and Fess...
...that the Anti-Saloon League is "going far afield" when it attempts to say that any beverage with over one-half of one per cent, alcoholic content is intoxicating...
...That no more attention should be paid to the Anti-Saloon League than to "any other group of lobbyists blindly promoting something they wrongly think beneficial to the country...
...Anti-Saloon League replied by declaring that the Senator had "abused" it, and by intimating that he was "interested in the return of booze." "I will go sled length in showing up the kind of men who are running the League While I have not exactly made up my mind to run next year, the attitude of the Anti-Saloon League has pushed me a long way toward an affirmative decision. .... The Anti-Saloon League is a powerful organization. It raises hundreds of millions of dollars to bulldoze Representatives and Senators into carrying out their will. The Devil also...
...Twelve miles north-by-east of Columbus, Ohio, is the center of American morality," declared a Wet editor, referring to Westerville, Ohio. At Westerville 40 state superintendents of the Anti-Saloon League held a three-day convention to draw up plans for the coming year. On comparing notes, they agreed that the Atlantic states are not more than 50% dry and the country as a whole not more than 70% dry, and they decided that the next five years would be the hardest for them-that full enforcement of the Volstead Act cannot be attained before...