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Into the White House one day last week marched eleven solemn-faced churchmen. It was hot. Few of them wore waistcoats. Newsgatherers in the lobby were about to mistake them for businessmen on an economic mission when they recognized Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, leading the procession back into the president's office. Also recognized were Rev. David G. Wylie, Lord's Day Alliance president, and Rev. Harry Laity Bowlby, its secretary. Ranged around President Hoover, they made six small speeches each asking the President's support for a Sunday closing...
...long run we English-speaking people will not endure tyranny." His general denunciation of sumptuary legislation was, of course, received as a specific condemnation of Prohibition.* It reverberated throughout the land. The loudest echo came from Clarence True Wilson, 57, Ph. B., LL. D., general secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, who chanced to be in Portland at the moment.f Dr. Wilson declared that President Thayer had "railroaded" himself into office. He said: "I was in Washington looking on [at the 1927 A. M. A. Convention] when Dr. William Gerry Morgan was nominated for the presidency...
...Another Methodist attempt to meddle with Medicine brought another tart rebuke last week. The Voice of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church had blasted at the "lying, murderous campaign of the American tobacco trust" to get women to smoke. The Voice had cried: "Sixty percent of all babies born of cigaret-sucking mothers die before they reach the age of two." Investigation showed that the Voice got its research from hearsay and a man whose name resembled that of a doctor whom the American Medical Association calls a quack...
...Clarence True Wilson, General Secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, arch-lobbyist of the U. S. Drys, Consolidated (TIME, July 1), last week hinted, in an article for Collier's magazine, at a new way of enforcing Prohibition. Excerpts: "Every soldier and sailor has taken an oath to sustain the laws of the land. We already have a standing army ready and able to enforce all laws in every foot of the land and a man at the helm-Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy-who has taken a solemn oath to protect...
Died. William Thompson Galliher, 73, of Washington, D. C., banker, trustee of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, treasurer of the Hoover-Curtis inaugural committee; in Washington; of heart disease...