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Other Warren distinctions: As the Senate's only Civil War veteran, he holds the Congressional Medal of Honor. The highest peak in Wyoming (13,725 ft. in Wind River Range) was named Mount Warren for him. His influence was largely responsible for the selection of his son-in-law, General John Joseph Pershing, to command...
...Strawbridge acknowledged her debt for the idea to Mrs. Edward Beale McLean, wife of the publisher of the Washington Post, who served no liquor at her Easter party to set a law observance fashion and please President Hoover. Mrs. Strawbridge wrote to ladies of Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, New York. She inquired "whether it would be possible to constitute a committee of women of your own standing in the social world, who would interest themselves in creating sentiment for observance of the Prohibition laws within their own circles. My eventual desire," said she, "is to form a national committee composed...
...Strawbridge movement appeared to be in retort to the work of fashionable Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin of Manhattan and other founders of the new Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, whose object is to stamp out the hypocrisy of dry-voting by wet-drinkers and get the law changed (TIME, June 10). Socially formidable antagonists to Mrs. Strawbridge in Philadelphia will be Mrs. Archibald Barklie, Novelist Agnes Repplier, Mrs. Herbert Lincoln Clark...
Just before it adjourned last week, the Senate was asked by Washington's Senator Jones (Dry author of the Five & Ten law) to pass a resolution, as requested by the President for a joint commission to study Prohibition and recommend if necessary changes in administration and responsibility. The Senate at once began to debate the Hoover attitude on Prohibition. Virginia's Senator Carter Glass, thoroughly Dry and now thoroughly aroused, led the attack. His sharp voice crackled, his small body trembled with indignation...
Senator Glass said that the President, by his Commission and Investigation, had smothered the Prohibition issue. As a sponsor of the $250,000 appropriation for the expenses of the National Law Enforcement Commission, Senator Glass insisted that Prohibition was to have been the prime purpose of that inquiry. He cried...