Word: bruce
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eleven-day case for the Wets, ably managed by Senators Bruce of Maryland and Edge of New Jersey, came to a close with a vigorous speech from President Samuel H. Church of Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh. He accused professional Protestant reform-fanatics of seeking ecclesiastical control of the U. S. Government...
...panel of witnesses against Volsteadism appeared first, led by thoughtful Senator Bruce of Maryland and industrious Senator Edge of New Jersey...
...Senator Bruce made, according to Senator Reed, the ablest presentation of the anti-prohibition case ever submitted by a public...
...Senator Bruce declared that "the Volstead Act has converted the Federal Government, with its denaturing outfit of poisons and filth, into a more monstrous Caesar Borgia than any that medieval Italy ever knew. In other ways also, it has filled the stomachs of the people with deadly concoctions...
Between them, Sentor Bruce and his associate, Senator Edge, compressed into their statements all the general arguments against prohibition...