Word: prohibitionist
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...Cutten, born the son of a sea captain in Nova Scotia, is a onetime Baptist minister and Prohibitionist. For fun, he collects antique spoons. When he arrived at Colgate to become its president in 1922, he said : "The word democracy has become a fetish in America. . . . The rule (in government) must be by the aristocracy...
...Birmingham, Ala., James Cannon pugnacious, 73-year-old Prohibitionist, politician, and Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, announced that he was retiring from his ecclesiastical duties. Explanation: "I dedicate the rest of my powers to the fight against the liquor traffic...
...years between 1908 and 1911 brought forth a group of undergraduates particularly gifted in the art of satire. A flurry of freak issues was the result. Included among these in the display are a yellow "Radcliffe Suffragette", the "Harvard Lowlife", a green "Harvard Prohibitionist", and a copy of the "Brewers Gazette" and the "Anarchist". The editors of these two magazines must have believed in color a as a sales attraction, the former having a delicate pink cover, the latter a flaming...
Oberlin's jewels are such children as Feminist Lucy Stone, Physicist Robert Millikan, Prohibitionist Wayne B. Wheeler, Ohio's Governor Martin Luther Davey, Chinese Finance Minister H. H. Kung...
Died. Very Reverend Monsignor John J. Curran, 77, famed mediator of Pennsylvania anthracite strikes, eloquent prohibitionist; after long illness; in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Mine mule-driver in his boyhood, Priest Curran enlisted the aid of his friend President Theodore Roosevelt to bring about a victorious conclusion to John Mitchell's historic United Mine Workers strike of 1902. Admirer and aid of John L. Lewis and his fight to unionize the coal industry, Monsignor Curran was stricken after his rectory was fired last Good Friday...