Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Jackson made no comment on his Attorney General's letter. Less reticent were E. S. Shumaker, head of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, Mrs. Grace Altvater, head of the Indianapolis Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Rev. Dr. John Roach Straton, famed Fundamentalist...
...looking individual whose coat-pocket bulged with a telltale protuberance. They saw him clap hand on this individual's shoulder, reach into the bulging pocket and withdraw a bottle containing whiskey. And they saw the arrested individual turn upon his captor the face of Ed Jackson, Governor of Indiana...
What basis existed for thus supposing Governor Jackson a lawbreaker? Evidence from no less source than Indiana's Attorney General, Arthur L. Gilliom. Mr. Gil-liom has been opposed to the Wright (state prohibition) Law which, drier than the Volstead Act, does not permit whiskey to be sold in Indiana even on a doctor's prescription. Seeking the Governor's aid in amending the Wright Law, Mr. Gilliom last week wrote to Governor Jackson, reminded him that during Mrs. Jackson's recent attack of pneumonia, a doctor had prescribed whiskey for her. Mr. Gil-liom recalled...
STANDARD OIL OF INDIANA: Robert Wright Stewart, Chairman; William Meriam Burton, President...
...approximate. Among them were Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, who used to be a jockey; Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago, who presented Mr. Whitney with a golden cup; Mayor James J. Walker of New York, who is sel dom absent from any spectacle; Thomas D. Taggart, potent Indiana Democrat; Herbert Bayard Swope, who edits the New York World; Joseph Pulitzer, who bears a famed name and owns part of the World; Admiral Gary T. Grayson; and W. O. Mays, who as Federal Prohibition Administrator for Kentucky, said: "Hipflask violators will be arrested. Derby Day parties must...