Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prohibition: Bone dry, with this advance upon his platform and Mr. Coolidge: "Common sense compels us to realize that grave abuses have occurred-abuses which must be remedied." Later, he named the abolition of the saloon as a cause of U. S. prosperity...
...have never consciously questioned any man's motives and so ... I desire to withdraw the charges formally, in so far as they affect his votes on gambling and prostitution, but not his position as to the saloon...
Died. Eugene Levering, 82, onetime (1878-1921) president of the National Bank of Commerce (Baltimore), and after its merger with the Merchants National Bank, chairman of the board, trustee and patron of the Johns Hopkins University, ofttime contributor to the Anti-Saloon League; in Baltimore. His twin brother, Joshua Levering, was the Prohibition party's nominee for the presidency...
...letting Jews keep their stores open on Sunday. When Editor White said that Assemblyman Smith had voted for "The Scarlet Woman of Babylon," he was stretching a point. But he had some basis of fact to go on. There used to be a fine distinction between hotels and saloons. Half-saloon, half-hotel were the assignation houses which evaded the intent of an act known as the Raines law, by renting regularly a specified number of bedrooms and handing out sandwiches or "free lunch" with drinks in lieu of serving meals. The Smith record included votes to enable such establishments...
...secretary of this committee, one Robert Athey, last week announced that 150,000 return postcards had been sent to voters. The cards bear a pledge to "vote against Congressmen who vote dry and drink wet and all those Congressmen who have received money or political support from the Anti-Saloon League, the W. C. T. U. or bootleggers, so there will be a liberal majority in the next Congress to help