Word: prohibitionists
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Howe noted that the 1876 platform of the Prohibitionist party supported the use of the Bible in schools and called for governmental "protection of purity," while the 1964 Republican platform advocates a school prayer amendment to the Constitution and calls for legislation to bar obscenity from the mails...
...dour, slum-ridden industrial city (pop. 182,900) on Scotland's east coast, is famed for its marmalade and maverick politics. It has sent only two Tory M.P.s to Westminster in 131 years, and in 1922 threw out Winston Churchill, then a Liberal, in favor of the only Prohibitionist ever to sit in Parliament. In 1959 the Labor Party only managed to hang onto Dundee by 714 votes, and so, in last week's by-election, the Tories had hopes that the impact of a new, Scottish Prime Minis ter might help to defeat Labor. Instead, the government...
Corruption is widespread. In New Delhi a police officer was caught shipping whisky to Bombay in crates labeled "Government of India Records." An illegal still was found in a Bombay compound owned (but not occupied) by Finance Minister Morarji Desai, an ardent prohibitionist. One bootlegger proved to be the chauffeur of Bombay's chief justice, and his still was located in his employer's garage. The police of Maharashtra state informed local officials that they had to neglect ordinary criminals because they spent so much time on prohibition raids...
...Gilfedder proceeds unswervingly down the Marxist SLP path, his prohibitionist opponent is a liberal who just cannot walk the straight conservative line of his party. The Prohibition Party platform is rather a parody of classic midwestern conservatism. The platform advocates a free market farm economy, states rights and racial equality, anti-trust laws covering labor and complete laissez-faire. It opposes, among other things, the legalized trade in alcoholic beverages. Shaw is anxious for a second prohibition but feels that "law is only ten per cent of the answer...
Died. Carl Elias Milliken, 83, somber Prohibitionist who served from 1917 to 1921 as Maine's first fulltime Governor (his predecessors rarely devoted more than a couple of days each month to the job), a onetime president of the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society who later became secretary of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America and turned against the "pulpiteers" who attacked "improper" movies; of cancer; in Springfield, Mass...