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...school is an outgrowth of Dr. Haggard's Laboratory of Applied Physiology and his Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol. Teamed with him in all three is Physiologist Elvin Morton Jellinek. Says Dr. Haggard: "This school is not financed by liquor interests nor by the drys, but out of the regular Laboratory research funds." The curriculum will include: physiology national and class liquor attitudes and practices; traffic problems; relations of personality to alcohol; suicide; crime; heredity; temperance movements; social control; legislation; church strategy...
...Manhattan last week famed, forthright Physiologist Anton J. Carlson of the University of Chicago chairmaned a meeting aimed at overcoming this situation. The conferees were no sere cluster of drys: they were top-notch physiologists, psychiatrists, clergymen, social workers and representatives of Alcoholics Anonymous (organization of cured alcoholics), called together by the Research Council on Problems of Alcohol, a branch of the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
...amendment's support came a sudden flash flood of letters and telegrams from U.S. drys. Sample, received by Kansas' Senator Arthur Capper: "The Lydian Class of the College Hill Methodist Sunday School . . . urges the adoption of the Lee amendment...
...Women praying for Prohibition near polling places are blamed by wet leaders for the loss since September of seven Kentucky counties to the drys. (Bourbon-famed Kentucky now has 66 dry counties, 54 wet.) The wets demanded that the vote be thrown out because the praying pickets intimidated the voters. Assistant Attorney General Guy Herdman has ruled against the wets. Said he: "Unless you could establish that praying affected the result, it would not invalidate the election. No voter would be so weak as to admit that these prayers so frightened him as to intimidate him to vote...
...cream, soda pop, postcards, films and newspapers on Sunday. Ocean Grove is the only dry community on the North Jersey coast, and in 1926 the late John Philip Sousa, concert touring, incurred its permanent displeasure by playing Follow the Swallow after he had been told a march called Wets & Drys would be inacceptable...