Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Caldwell, N. J., the members of the First Presbyterian Church met to decide what to do with their benevolence budget of $5,500. By a vote that was three less than unanimous, they decided to discontinue their annual contribution of $250 to the New Jersey Anti-Saloon League. "The League," they said, "is no longer a charitable organization...
...Mark Hanna appeared as twin veins of business and religion in Ohio's great industrialists of that day, such as John D. Rockefeller of Cleveland and the Gambles and Procters of Cincinnati. A purer vein of religious sentiment was springing forth in a southern county as the Anti-Saloon League. The industrial vein was becoming purer, too, as Ohio grew and diversified with rolling mills at Youngstown, rubber at Akron, motor cars (Packard) at Warren, ore and paint at Cleveland, liquor at Cincinnati. More numerous and politically potent than all were Ohio's farmers. State pride in "home...
...resented the suggestion that he could ever outgrow Ohio. He died as he could only have wished to die, of red fire and political excitement, just after shaking the hand and naming the name of every member of the Delaware Kiwanis Club. Governor and Senator he had been. Anti-Saloon League champion and lion of small-town Ohioans, he remained. President he was not destined to be but he died at the peak of his endeavor in that direction. Ohio wept him. The Senate mourned him. The country noticed that he was gone...
...gang. We'll see whether these roughnecks from the East can shoot up Chicago and get away with it." The reason for Chief of Police Hughes' sudden activity was that a prohibition agent had shot and wounded one William Beatty, political worker for Mayor Thompson, in a saloon...
...young hero from a position so fraught with dangers to his integrity. He can be sent to school in the virtuous Middle West and afterwards on a missionary tour to the hotel bellboys throughout the country. Who knows? He may even grow up to be President of the Anti-Saloon League...