Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anti-Saloon League of America Washington...
...Anti-Saloon League will not, for any purpose, raise two millions for the year ending...
...Some uses "without political effect" to which Anti-Saloon moneys are put: publishing "a flood of pamphlets, leaflets, books and articles on the scientific, economic, sociological, hygienic and other phases of the alcohol problem"; publishing the Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem; issuing press releases; "furnishing the religious press (which reaches the great bulk of our supporters) with articles intended to answer wet propaganda"; publishing The American Issue (national monthly...
...Senator Robinson is so keen about quoting my immortal prose, here is a line for him : In the present sloppy Democratic shambles, dry ice Robinson wears the harassed look of an Anti-Saloon League sitting timorously on the edge of his chair at a bartenders' convention. Let him turn that on one of his audiences and then try to giggle out of the applause...
This spectacle titillated the city's Democrats. They sent a summary of the testimony to all county organizations and the Democratic National Committee, charging that saloon money was being used to finance the local Republican organization. With imaginative gusto the Democrats pictured the saloons of all 48 wards turning a possible $560,000 into Republican tills...