Word: prohibitionist
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Died. Rev. Dr. Charles Scanlon, 57, President of the National Tem- perance Society, ardent Presbyterian Prohibitionist; of heart dis- ease; in Pittsburgh...
...flamboyant Prohibitionist like Carrie Nation, who tossed cuspidors at bartenders. Her method was different, and so was her subject. Cigarets were to Lucy Page Gaston what alcohol was to Carrie Nation. Miss Gaston was founder and Superintendent of the Anti-Cigaret League of America. Once she wrote a letter to Queen Mary of England, reproving her, if press reports had been correct, for enjoying a cigaret after luncheon. But the climax of Miss Gastori's work came in Kansas, where she, more than anyone else, was responsible for the agitation which put a stringent anti-cigaret law on the statute...
...ghost of a rebel past, surprised everyone by being elected Governor. His administration has had its successes: he gave the state a budget system, cut expenditures, reduced the number of departments and bureaus from more than 100 to 18. To the public he is known chiefly as an ardent Prohibitionist and one of the pacifiers of the anthracite coal strike of 1923. Last spring he aspired to be a U. S. Senator, ran a poor third to Messrs. Vare and Pepper in the primaries. Now Mr. Pinchot is without a job; perhaps he will retire to the philosophic pleasures...
...Heard Premier Baldwin admit in the course of debate that Laborite Prohibitionist Dr. Alfred Salter was very nearly correct when he declared that many Right Honorable Members are habitual drunkards (TIME...
...Senator is said to see a unique place for himself as liberal, intellectual prohibitionist...