Word: prohibitionists
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...very dry member of the College refused to vote for any of the four candidates listed on the ballot and scored the CRIMSON bitterly for not including the name of the prohibitionist candidate...
...Wagnalls became a partner of Funk & Co. They published books only, at that time?chiefly reprints of English and Continental authors. The Standard Dictionary first appeared in 1885, edited by Dr. Funk. Dr. Funk was a prohibitionist and his Voice (1880), an organ of the Prohibition Party, reached a circulation of 700,000 in the campaign [Cleveland vs. Harrison vs. Fisk (Pro.)] of 1888. The firm became Funk & Wagnalls Co. in 1891, having established the Literary Digest in 1889. Beside the bulky, bound volumes of that weekly, which constitute an exhaustive compendium of the press opinions of the world...
...When the Progressive Convention assembled in Chicago in 1912, there was only one jarring note. It came from a Prohibitionist...
...Leonard '25 suspects B. H. Noyes '02 of being a Prohibitionist!-- as if that were an exceptionally odious species of scheming oppressors for whom --to use his words--"there was no law too sacred for them to break" providing it would further their ends...
...violation of the prohibition laws of the United States how strong the feeling of the best minds of the best people of America is on the subject of prohibition. Given the American problem, given the American climate, I think that if I were an American I would be a prohibitionist...