Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then there was William Allen White and Vice. The Warrior enmeshed Mr. White but came out under the sign of the saloon...
...onetime (1919-27) Representative William ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw, who sought to "come back'' with Anathema Smith as his one issue. Mr. Upshaw, a cripple with a tireless, high-pitched voice, an extensive Biblical and patriotic vocabulary and a standing offer to use all for the Anti-Saloon League, was comfortably beaten by Mr. Steele...
Murders. In the early hours of a Philadelphia morning three men with shotguns murdered a hunchback, a month ago. He was weazened, four-foot Hughie McLoon, 27, saloon keeper, prizefight manager, onetime mascot of the Philadelphia Athletics. Standing beneath a street lamp, he made an easy target. The assassins whizzed away into darkness...
...familiar phenomenon in the U. S. is the Anti-Saloon League, now 35 years old. Becoming familiar is another phenomenon, now nine years old, called the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment...
Perhaps Governor Zimmerman's endorsement by the W. C. T. U. and Anti-Saloon League helped ruin him. Wisconsin is an oldtime Wet. Perhaps the Hon. Zimmerman's former membership in the La Follette contingent helped split Candidate Beck's vote. Perhaps the La Follette grasp on Wisconsin is slipping in the second generation. Or, perhaps Nominee Walter Jodok Kohler is a wealthy manufacturer with a real flair for politics, a convincing program...