Word: leonards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Decided to send a special delegation to Washington to urge stricter Prohibition: Bishop Nicholson of Chicago, Bishop Leonard of San Francisco, Judge Pollock of Fargo, N.D., William H. Van Benschoten of New York, Rev. Clarence True Wilson, Secretary of the Church's Temperance Board...
...Leonard Liebling, famed critic, has compiled a list of musical festivals which are scheduled to take place in England and on the Continent this Summer and Fall. American tourists will find no lack of orchestral and opera fare, as they scoot from place to place, greasing their way with florins, francs, crowns, lire, rentenmarks...
...have fallen prey to its ravages. It may take two or three generations, but eventually there will be no more parched throats in need of alcoholic lubrication. Those responsible for this law, so odious to the selfish and narrow minded, had in mind its effects on future generations. Mr. Leonard speaks of the great test of popular approval but does not seem to be able to look beyond his own nose. Since the primary benefit was expected to accrue to those yet unborn, five years is no test at all. It is up to us to lay aside our appetites...
...have just read the communication of Mr. Leonard which you published yesterday. If this were as innoffensive as it is amusing, I should consider it worthy of no further comment. But such a trade against the fundamental principles of constitutional government should not remain unchallenged...
Quoting from Mr. Leonard, "Prohibition is really nothing but an overgrown police regulation, puffed up with pseudo-religious bigotry and a dash of second-hand prairie Puritanism." I admire such an excellent command over the English language, but should like to point out that this statement is quite contrary to the facts involved. This "tyrannical decree" "In defiance of public opinion" was already in existence in thirty-three States of the Union before the Eighteenth Amendment was put before the people. The first Liquor Law was enacted in Maine more than fifty years ago. This was not an upstart regulation...