Word: prohibitionist
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...Anyone who tries to be a Christian and a prohibitionist must lead a double life. I commend that sentence to the gentlemen from Georgia [Mr. Upshaw] and Texas [Mr. Blanton]. Truth crushed to earth will rise again...
Mellon. "The Secretary of the Treasury has never been a Prohibitionist. Indeed, it is merely recording a known fact to say that he has until recently held distillery properties. They represented, of course, only a fraction of his extensive investments, and it has been authoritatively stated that he took early steps to liquidate these properties after assuming his present office. In any case, the private investments of the Secretary of the Treasury do not in themselves warrant an attack upon his administration of the Prohibition laws, but the ownership of these properties perhaps helps to explain his attitude...
...better to obey God than man, and I am fully persuaded this prompting is of God. Call me fanatic or what you may. Soon after Will K. Reeme of Kansas City, Mo., insurance man, ardent Prohibitionist, was arrested, charged with writing an "indecent letter."* He admitted his authorship...
...Eugene Noble Foss. He was Congressman in 1910. He served as Governor of Massachusetts for three one-year terms (1911-13 inclusive). He has been by turns Republican, Democrat and Prohibitionist. In the present election, he was a Democrat-a self-styled "Coolidge-Democrat...
LADY ASTOR, Conservative: "Now that those states have gone prohibitionist, is it not very likely they will have more money to pay their debts...