Word: revs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week five of the 14 original Anti-Saloon leaguers held reunion at Oberlin. They are: Dr. Howard Hyde Russell, associate general superintendent of the League; Asariah D. Myroot, in 1893 and at present librarian of Oberlin College; J. T. Henderson, president of Oberlin College; Andrew C. Comings, bookseller; Rev. Henry Tenney of Webster Grove, Mo. They adopted resolutions giving thanks for the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act, called upon the U. S. people to demand stricter enforcement of them, to resist any attempt at their repeal or nullification. This time their proceedings aroused few smiles or sneers...
...Anti-Saloon League founders, the Rev. Howard Hyde Russell may be isolated as "the Founder." Last week indeed he dedicated a monument commemorating a temperance speech made by Abraham Lincoln in 1846. The monument's inscription contains, in large capitals, the name of Abraham Lincoln, in slightly larger capitals the name of Howard Hyde Russell, described as "Founder of the Anti-Saloon League...
Governor Jackson made no comment on his Attorney General's letter. Less reticent were E. S. Shumaker, head of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, Mrs. Grace Altvater, head of the Indianapolis Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Rev. Dr. John Roach Straton, famed Fundamentalist...
...great-grandson of Poet-Diplomat James Russell Lowell; third-cousin-once-removed of President A, Lawrence Lowell of Harvard and of the late Poetess Amy Lowell;* to Julia Brokaw, direct descendant of Bourgon Broucard,? French Huguenot exile, who sought refuge in America in 1675; in Manhattan. Headmaster the Rev. William Greenough Thayer of St. Mark's School, officiated...
...long had the self-conscious Rev. Basil W. B. Matthews, Vicar of Holy Trinity Church, London, endured the scrutiny of his congregation, that last week he broke into psalmodic lament...