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...conditioned building on Des Moines' Grand Avenue. Its current assets are $4,200,000, up 24% over last year, and its estimated 1955 premium income is up to $7,000,000, 50% over 1954. It has seven branch offices and 1,250 salesmen. All the salesmen are drys and most are nonsmokers. Sales meetings are held in churches, and the company gets an evangelistic fervor into its selling that makes it seem more of a crusade than a commercial operation...
...explanation was enough to take the curse off King (who is also a moderate drinker) with some of the critics. "We still think it's not too good," said a W.C.T.U. spokesman, "though a man can always adjust himself and change his views." But most of the drys were unmoved. Nixon's letter, a Methodist Board of Temperance official felt, was "cocky." "It is the mind-set of a distillery general manager which matters," editorialized the respected Christian Century. The drys were particularly disturbed lest ex-Southern Comfortman King bring his wet influence to bear on legislation...
...Wets and Drys...
Bacon called "drys," who preach the gospel of no drinking at all, "well meaning," but said "they are doing something which is unmoral...
...public discussion in the U.S. and luridly colored the European view of American life. An overwhelming majority of the U.S. people came to recognize that Prohibition was a mistake-but before Repeal in 1933, the opponents of Prohibition had exaggerated its evil effects as widely as the most fanatic Drys had exaggerated the evils of drink...