Word: antis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secretary of this committee, one Robert Athey, last week announced that 150,000 return postcards had been sent to voters. The cards bear a pledge to "vote against Congressmen who vote dry and drink wet and all those Congressmen who have received money or political support from the Anti-Saloon League, the W. C. T. U. or bootleggers, so there will be a liberal majority in the next Congress to help
...Manhattan, Alfred E. Smith. Thompson has lately been complaining, like Hughes, of ill health. Last week, like Hughes a few days prior, Thompson denied that he himself was going to resign. Chicagoans last week talked of putting Vice President Charles Gates Dawes at the head of a consolidated anti-crime commission to rehabilitate Chicago's self-respect...
...League of Nations mandate. Ruandans approve the present Queen of the Belgians because they know her to be 100% German, know that her father was Duke Charles of Bavaria (Germany), know that she married King Albert in Munich, Germany. For her sake generous Ruandans overlook her husband's anti-German sentiments...
...Also withdrawn are the "anti-ferments." In his laboratory, Grapegrower Garrett has made champagne from his concentrate in five days. Under ordinary conditions of temperature, the concentrate can become champagne in from three to six weeks...
...Died. Captain William Rule, 89, oldest active editor in the U. S., founder (1885) and publisher of the Knoxville Journal; of appendicitis; in Knoxville, Tenn. Republican and veteran of the Union Army, he was nevertheless elected mayor of Knoxville in 1873 and, in 1898, caused Tennessee to enact an anti-duel law in defiance of the oldtime code of honor, became the man whose birthday Knoxville considered "next to Christmas" in importance...