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...Drys. Most famed of lobbyists are Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Board of Temperance and Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League...
...nation economically ailing, antiProhibitionists have been pointing with new emphasis and hope to drink as a source of revenue and employment. Last week the economic argument for Prohibition reform had gathered enough momentum to cause plans for monster "beer parades" throughout the land, and three famed Drys came out in favor of resubmission of Prohibition to the people...
...suppose the President's party should declare for a referendum. Would he acquiesce? If he did, what then? Asked this question by the Christian Science Monitor last week, Prohibitor Clarence True Wilson gave the Dry answer: "Drys would not support him and would go to extreme lengths to repudiate what they would consider a policy of Judas Iscariot. . . . They would either put up an independent candidate or would vote for the other [Democratic] side even though it were Wet as a rebuke for that kind of leadership...
...Five years ago James Lee Key, a tall, angular Atlanta lawyer who looks like a beardless Lincoln, was elected Mayor of Atlanta. Last week he was still Mayor after roundly trouncing an incongruous political combination of red-hot Drys and disgruntled Wet labor leaders. Atlantans refused to recall Mayor Key from office, by the record-breaking vote...
...administration building at Atlanta's airport. Labor leaders, protesting that the wage scale was too low, got the City Council to pass a measure adding $4,300 as a workers' bonus. Mayor Key, determined to retrench, vetoed it. The Atlanta Federation of Trades picked up the Drys' recall petition, pushed it hard enough to secure last week's election...