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Superintendent McBride has claimed a Dry strength of 325 in the next House. To substantiate this claim his organization must win each & every one of the 24 contests and, in addition, defeat 16 of the 90 sitting Wet members...
...glove is cast. The words yesterday of F. Scott McBride, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, that the prohibition issue is "more clearly drawn than at anytime since the coming of prohibition" is steadily growing more apparent to the American citizenry. After ten years of a notable experiment in which one thousand lives, millions of dollars, racketeering, and the worst corruption of public office in the history of the United States, have all been heaped helter-skelter in the crucible of the experimenters, with a new code of lawlessness and immorality as the only product, "the time has come...
...week at Des Moines, the United Presbyterian Church of North America was pleased that in the "thorough investigation recently conducted by the Senate Lobby Committee (TiME, May 19) the integrity of the Anti-Saloon League had once more been publicly confirmed." General superintendent of the League is Francis Scott McBride. ordained United Presbyterian minister. The Assembly was opposed to "drinking scenes in the movies showing the use of intoxicants as attractive, adventurous and fashionable" and to "insinuations favorable to intoxicating liquors in the fiction pages of leading magazines." It also condemned compulsory military training in American universities and high schools...
...counsel for those who sought to break the will. When the case came before the Oregon Supreme Court, Mr. Joseph charged that Chief Justice Rand had had a mining deal with Mr. Mannix and was thus disqualified to hear the suit. Then he accused Mr. Mannix of plying Justice McBride with liquor to win favorable decisions. In the consequent uproar, Mr. Mannix filed a disbarment petition against Mr. Joseph who retaliated with a similar action against his opponent. When a committee who heard the evidence recommended his disbarment to the Supreme Court, Mr. Joseph announced himself as a candidate...
...McBride: It was born at a prayer meeting and we do all our work in close communion with the churches...