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...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...
Kessler. An oldtime Prohibitionist will still bridle at the name of Julius Kessler. Mr. Kessler was head of the much-abused pre-War "Whiskey Trust." More to the point, he enjoyed the reputation of having sold more whiskey than any other living...
...years he was with the Toronto Globe-as reporter, city editor, associate editor, finally director. During the War he went to the front with Canadian troops as a crack correspondent. Now 68, ruddy-cheeked, snowy-haired, blue-eyed, he speaks with a broad Scottish accent, is a stern prohibitionist...
Washington, D. C. Buying great quantities of real estate, she induced the Austrian, Spanish, Cuban, Polish, French and Lithuanian embassies to move there, built a $300.000 palace which she attempted time after time to have made the official home of the Vice Presidents of the U. S. Vegetarian, ardent prohibitionist (she poured her husband's valuable cellar into the gutter immediately after his death) and anti- tobacconist, she caused one great sensation in 1931 when she publicly announced that her granddaughter, Mrs. Beatrice ("Trixie") Van Rensselaer Henderson Wholean was a foundling, secretly adopted to inherit a $600,000 trust...
...John says that a majority of the students in American Colleges are prohibitionists in theory though not members of the prohibitionist party. He says that Harvard is behind him in this respect...