Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which citizens are actually interested. It contains three questions of a political nature (party plank, law enforcement, modification by states) and a fourth question aimed directly at the Candidates' liquor views. It was upon this fourth question that Candidate Willis, a boom-booming champion of the Anti-Saloon League, was expected to become magnificently resonant...
There were two questions. This was the first: Did Sebastian Spering Kresge, multi-millionaire proprietor of 5 & 10 cent stores, famed philanthropist and supporter of the Anti-Saloon League, devout Methodist Episcopalian churchman, commit a breach of conduct with Miss Gladys Ardelle Fish, with whom he arranged a rendezvous at the door of a fashionable Manhattan Church, and with whom detectives later discovered him to be consorting in a nearby apartment? The answer to this question, determined last week by the judicial decision upon Mrs. Kresge's uncontested suit for divorce, was yes. The second question, raised...
...answer to the second question produced an inquisitive uproar. Doubtless, the Anti-Saloon League needed the money, doubtless Mr. Kresge's conduct in giving the Anti-Saloon League half a million dollars was highly to be praised. Yet, would $500,000 spent in anti-saloon propaganda ("educational purposes") be sufficient to counteract the unfortunate effect produced upon those persons who would instantly suppose that if a man commits adultery with, as it were, his left hand while he commits philanthropy with his right, the man is a hypocrite, and the organization which accepts his bounty is a partner...
Others did see how it could. Thomas Nicholson, Detroit Bishop, president of the Anti-Saloon League of America, explained that the Kresge's private morals had nothing to do with the case. Said Bishop Nicholson...
...Kresge did not give the $500,000 to the Anti-Saloon League as a philanthropic gesture. It was purely a business proposition with him. He saw that prohibition increased his own income, that it brought more nickels and dimes into his stores, and so he devoted $500.000 in aiding this cause which so directly affects...