Word: prohibitionist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...garnered more than 270,000 votes-or 2.2% of the total. Over the following decade the party was strong enough to elect several Congressmen, a few Governors and lots of local officials. In last year's election, a paltry 15,893 voters-.02% of the total-pulled the Prohibitionist lever. Moreover, the party, which was formed in 1869 and is the nation's third oldest, has not elected anybody to anything since the days when people drank their whisky out of teacups. What to do? Last week the party did what many another stumbling enterprise has done: changed...
Gambling was universal, and fighting was taken in stride. Preachers fretted about English-inspired "Foppery, Luxury and Recreation." Gerald Carson, a student of American manners, rightly notes that "a prohibitionist in colonial America would have been considered a lunatic." The alcoholic eye-opener was a morning ritual for some upper-class women. In the presence of the bottle, church people overcame sectarian differences. On the Carolina frontier, Episcopalian Charles Woodmason grumbled that "In this Article both Presbyterians and Episcopalians very charitably agree (viz.) That of Getting Drunk...
...apparent heart attack; in Oklahoma City. In 1902 Gaylord bought a piece of the Daily Oklahoman and set up the Oklahoma Publishing Co.-today a conglomerate holding two newspapers, a magazine, eight radio and TV stations, and Oklahoma's largest truck-big express service. A staunch conservative and Prohibitionist, Gaylord practiced daily calisthenics, made business trips well into his 90s, and put in a full day at the office the day of his death...