Word: prohibitionist
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...Crack dealers, like the rest of us, don't particularly want to get killed--or kill anyone else--while trying to make a buck, but since drug deals can't be legally enforced like other commercial contracts, they need firepower to back them up. The government's irrational prohibitionist policies encourage a handful of teenaged criminals to terrorize minority neighborhoods in the inner cities, while ironically perpetuating the stereotype of all African-American men as potential muggers and murderers...
According to the Commission, the law allowing the church and school veto has been on the books since 1933. It was drafted to placate the Women's Christian Temperance Union and other prohibitionist groups as America's experiment with a liquor-less state came to a close, one commission member said...
...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...