Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presidential appointments to the Supreme Court. In the history of this country more than one contentious law has been thoroughly reinterpreted by a new court which has changed in membership. Should Smith, by any chance, have the opportunity to appoint five members of the Supreme Court, the Anti-Saloon League would have good cause for worry...
...attend the Willis-for-President rally on the evening of March 7, where Hardin, Allen, Hancock, Logan, Putnam, Anglaize and many other fine counties in the state will be represented and do some "booming" for Willis, something which seems to hurt TIME terribly. There is not a thug, saloon parasite, grafter, bootlegger, and not a "big wet" in the state of Ohio who will not welcome with glee the slurs which TIME has spread out before the people. If I am not mistaken, the thousands of women voters in Ohio who know that Willis has fought for their homes...
...favor of the principles and practices of super-government as exemplified by the Anti-Saloon League, the Board of Prohibition, Temperance and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church and by their ancillary organization, the late, unlamented Ku Klux Klan...
...delegates from which he had hoped to sprout a tail-end nomination like President Harding's, Candidate Willis blustered: "Personally, I have no fear of the results." He knew he was being laughed at in urbane Cincinnati, but he felt sure that, as champion orator of the Anti-Saloon League and loyal defender of the "Ohio Gang," he could count on Ohio's farmers, small-townsmen and patronage-seekers, and on big, semidry, well-organized Cleveland. His campaign manager, Col. Carmi Thompson of Cleveland, was thought to have thrilled upper Ohio, if not the whole continent, by announcing...
...proconsuls, parasites, and plug-uglies . .,. has even reserved to itself and its allies a monopoly of murder-murder without penalty. The right to murder Americans abroad without fear or favor, it delegates to bandit organizations; the right to murder Americans at home by poisonous liquors remains with the Anti-Saloon League and its allied bootleggers, and the right to wreck and drown American sailors and shoot up foreign seamen goes to its rum cruisers...