Word: prohibitionist
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Governor Alfred M. Landon, Republican nominee, received 1016 undergraduate ballots, while President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 was the choice of 995 students. Norman Thomas, Socialist, received 72, Earl Browder, Communist, 35, William Lemke, Union party candidate, 9, and Colvin, Prohibitionist...
Last March The New Republic carried a searching disquisition into automobile accidents, made no mention of drunken driving as a cause. For this omission it was soundly berated by that pious, prohibitionist magazine, The Christian Advocate. Three weeks ago The New Republic replied editorially: "The reason we did not mention it in our earlier discussion was that our article was confined to the major factors in the annual death toll, which is now running to about 38,000 annually, and we were not and are not aware that drunkenness is one of these factors. The Travelers Insurance Co. . . . while recognizing...
Died. Amos Parker Wilder, 74, one-time (1909-14) U. S. Consul-General in Shanghai, later the prohibitionist co-editor of New Haven's Journal-Courier, father of Novelist Thornton Wilder; of heart disease; in New Haven, Conn...
Engaged. Pauline Morton Smith Sabm, 49 famed anti-Prohibitionist, and Dwight Filley Davis, 57, onetime (1925-29) U. S. Secretary of War, donor of the international tennis trophy bearing his name, m Washington. Her second husband died in 1933, his first wife...
...Bell Buckle, Tenn., I have noticed this with interest since, in the South, this remark has always been attributed to the late William R. ("Old Sawney") Webb who founded Webb School in Culleoka, Tenn., in 1870. Due to the pressure of the local "Wets," "Old Sawney," an ardent Prohibitionist, found it expedient to move. At the request of the townspeople of Bell Buckle, who built him a schoolhouse as an inducement to come, he moved the school there in 1888. In moving, the schoolbody came in spring wagons holding classes on the way. I might add that when Woodrow Wilson...