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Next day 1,100 delegates of the W. 0. F. N. P. R., representing a membership of 300,000 women Wets in 31 States, met under the chairmanship of New York's smart, determined Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin...
Because President Hoover is rated as a thoroughgoing Dry, none of the Wet delegates was surprised when Mrs. Sabin first announced that her organization would not call at the White House. Hearing this the President's aides became excited, far it would never do, they thought, for the White House to welcome the Drys only to be cut by Wets. Besides, the W. O. F. N. P. R. was more important socially and financially than the N. W. D. L. E. L. Therefore word was passed unofficially to the Wet convention that the President would be glad to see them...
...towards the 1,000,000 set as goal for 1932. If this was not all that had been anticipated, Crusaders took comfort from the thought that five notable young men enthusiastically working in a community are worth 500 zealless ordinary citizens. Notable Crusader Commanders last week included: Charles Hamilton Sabin...
Speeches. In Manhattan, Executive Commander Sabin told his followers: "If each person opposed to Prohibition would contribute to the Crusaders or similar organizations one-tenth of what he spends each year for liquor, Prohibition would soon be ended." In Cleveland there was earnest talk of raising immediately $200,000, the city's share in a prospective $10,000,000 national fund. In Detroit, Henry Bourne Joy, Packard tycoon, cried: "I pray our President may soon recommend that the Federal Government cease to encroach upon the responsibilities of the States...
...Women's Organization for Prohibition Reform, founded by Crusader Sabin's mother (TIME, June 10), has about $200,000 for this campaign. The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, headed by Major Henry Hastings Curran (TIME, April 28, et seq.~), already has spent about $600,000. Estimate of organized Wet expenditures this year: $ 1,000,000. Estimated Anti-Saloon League campaign -expenditures: about...