Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them on the way down Pennsylvania Avenue. Sodden and drippy were bunting and flags. But spectators in the stands, huddling under newspapers and umbrellas, cheered plentifully nevertheless. From an upstairs window along the way, Dr. Arthur James Barton, southern Baptist, Chairman of the National Executive Committee of the Anti-Saloon League of America, and a band of prohibitors representing 29 other national organizations-the U. S. Drys, Consolidated (see p. 16)-looked down upon their Wet-Dry President with great satisfaction...
...Post, with many other good G. O. Papers, was "disappointed" in Mr. Hoover because, under ill-disguised pressure from the Anti-Saloon League and the Ku Klux Klan, he had rejected William Joseph Donovan, a prize Hooverite but a Roman Catholic and a Wet. Before the eager Donovan eye were juggled first the Attorney-Generalship, then the War portfolio. Mr. Hoover finally had to withdraw both. The best he could offer his good friend was the Governor-Generalship of the Philippines, which Col. Donovan refused, leaving Mr. Hoover to wonder if he had been disloyal to an old friend...
...executive committee of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, after sending an emissary to Washington, joined its Department of Moral Welfare with 30 other temperance organizations "for a unified plan for observance of the 18th Amendment, in accordance with the wishes of the administration of President Hoover." The Anti-Saloon League was included in this Presbyterian announcement and the Presbyterians made it sound as though the political stigma that has long attached to the League's name was going to be submerged, by merging all Dry efforts in a purely educational campaign. "The cultivation of public opinion...
...course favors modification. Chief mover of the society's activities is the Rev. James Empringham. Born in England but naturalized a U. S. citizen he is a onetime vice president of the Anti-Saloon League of America. As an author he has published Dangerous Deceits Exposed, Intestinal Gardening...
...Earl of Lonsdale and Sir George Chetwynd went fisticuffing for her sake in Hyde Park. Frederick Gebhardt, U. S. sportsman & socialite, built her a Manhattan mansion which still stands. Passing through a little Texas town, to which she had once been invited for the opening of a Lillie Langtry saloon, she was welcomed at the poker table, and the town was renamed Langtry...