Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Romanist or Protestant rule of nation depends on Presidential election."
At Columbus, Ohio, the mother chapter of the Anti-Saloon League published in The American Issue, its official organ, an editorial entitled "America's Strangest Political Campaign." Nominee Smith was described as representing "the sporty, jazz and liberal element of our population." The editorial also said: "If you believe...
In Washington, National Superintendent McBride was informed of the Ohio editorial by a Manhattan colleague who called it "flat dumbness," "not so particularly vicious as it is extremely foolish." Announced Leaguer McBride: "The Anti-Saloon League of America stands ready to support a Dry Catholic for the Presidency against a...
...political pleas of one sort or another, the Walker pronouncement is the first direct appeal from the highest official of a denomination to all members of his communion. It is therefore signifcant as the possible beginning of a formal Dry crusade led by unanimous Elder Statesmen of U. S. Protestantism. Not carelessly to be dismissed are the following spurts, which though lacking the universal imprimatur of the highest church officials, may be taken as indicative of how a Protestant army is being mustered...
At the ensuing State Banquet a toast was proposed by His Most Protestant Majesty Gustaf V to "The first King of Spain ever to visit Sweden!"