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...richest men. In Baltimore, Upton Sinclair was born 56 years ago last month. His father was a ne'er-do-well traveling salesman, much addicted to the bottle. The spectacle of his ''good and gentle-souled father" drinking himself to death made Sinclair a life-long Prohibitionist. Nor does he use tea, coffee, tobacco. He came by his radicalism early. Writes Author Sinclair in his autobiographical American Outpost: "Floyd Dell . . . asked me to explain the appearance of a social rebel in a conventional Southern family. I thought the problem over, and reported my psychology...
...Wild Jackass, Farmer Laborites, at will. On "Calendar Wednesdays," when his colleagues left the clerk of the House to drone away hundreds of petty little bills to keep the folks back home happy, LaGuardia was usually pres-ent to object to the more flagrant bits of logrolling. He made Prohibitionist William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw's life a burden, advocated $150,000,000 enforcement appropriations to make the nation rebel against Prohibition. In 1919, on a Republican ticket with Socialist backing, he was elected President of New York's Board of Aldermen. He was returned to Congress...
...Nonetheless. N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc. "B. A. I. S. 1869"† national agency with headquarters in Philadelphia, last week pointedly dropped the account of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. Wilfred Washington Fry, Ayer son-in-law president of the firm, is a Baptist Y. M. C. A. man, ardent Prohibitionist. He bore with Canada Dry so long as its ads went no further than to picture suggestively the cork of a gin bottle lying beside bottles of its sparkling beverages. Unreconciled to Repeal, Mr. Fry on learning that Canada Dry would soon be selling beer and whiskey, insisted that...
Bishop James Cannon Jr. stumped the State at the head of a vigorous Prohibitionist faction, told Indianapolitans: ''Indiana is the first State in which we have had an even chance. If we can win here we can prevent Repeal." Day after the voting, resilient Prohibitor Francis Scott McBride was declaring: "The vote in Indiana is heartening to those fighting Repeal. We had decided in advance that anything less than a 2-to-1 victory for Repeal would be a moral victory for us there." He thereupon vanished in Alabama. "The Wets had the support of both the national...
...York Democratic National Committee- woman, playwright's agent, author (My Crystal Ball); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A spinster suffraget. she once retorted to the Lucy Stone League: "I've been trying hard for 50 years to change my name without success." She was an anti-Prohibitionist ("all wet"), good friend & backer since 1918 of Alfred Emanuel Smith...