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...crowd," Mrs. Sabin reports, "yelled at me, 'What would your grandfather, who was an advocate of temperance, say to your talk?' I only dimly remember my grandfather and I did not know his views on the subject and accordingly I hesitated for a minute. Suddenly another man in the crowd answered for me. 'I know what he would say,' he shouted, 'exactly what he did when some Prohibitionists called on him and asked him what to do about a saloon which was operating in the vicinity of the Capitol. He told them to move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Ladies at Roslyn | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

...life." Since she is not yet 46, there appears to be considerable work ahead of her. How sincere and dedicated her fol lowing is will be more accurately determined between now and November. The real strength of the Sabin organization lies in the desire of the smalltown matron to ally herself, no matter how remotely, with a congregation of bona fide, rotogravure society figures in a cause about which she may or may not have profound convictions. The weakness of the W. O. N. P. R. lies in the populous class of rural women who also vote and who bitterly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Ladies at Roslyn | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

...simply gibbering with excitement," cried Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin, chairman of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, when she read this platform plank, adopted (934-to-213) by the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last week. It had been framed by a minority of the Resolutions subcommittee, later changed into a majority report of the whole committee which turned its back on a proposal only slightly less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: 142 Words | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

Procedure. Having gotten a thumbs-down on the 18th Amendment from the Democrats and at least a thumbs-sideways from the Republicans, last week Wets made ready the next steps toward wrenching Prohibition from the Federal statute books. Mrs. Sabin's sisterhood was to meet at Roslyn, L. I. July 7 to decide which Presidential candidate it would support. The Crusaders, the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment and the United Repeal Council were to meet later for a like purpose. There are 33 Senatorial elections ahead in November and 435 Representatives to be campaigned for or against before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: 142 Words | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

...your issue of May 30, under Prohibition, "Who's Ashamed?" you carry a footnote, "*Answer: Any Southerner," as your cryptic comment on Mrs. Sabin's address over the radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 13, 1932 | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

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