Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anti-Salooners. "The strategy we should employ today is to arouse our people and get them into the fight. Get the church people at the bat. Let them have their innings. . . . The Anti-Saloon League and the W. C. T. U. have never been and never will be supergovernment.* But we have said to the people that the time has come to take our government out of the hands of the bootleggers and put it back where it belongs." So said Superintendent Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League last month. Last week there were rumblings among Anti-Salooners...
...raised $250,000 for a "Governor's Enforcement Fund" after the Legislature had refused to vote money for Governor Gifford Pinchot to enforce Prohibition. The W. C. T. U. had an office in the State Capitol and paid for prosecutions brought in the name of Pennsylvania. National Anti-Saloon funds for assisting Prohibition enforcement from 1921 to 1925 were about $500,000 per annum-exclusive of millions raised by state Leagues. (TIME, July...
What the Anti-Saloon League has done, the Association against the Prohibition Amendment seeks to undo. What the late Wayne B. Wheeler was to Dryness, Captain William H. Stayton is to Wetness. Captain Stayton, an ex-Navy man now in the shipping business at Baltimore, is less vocal than was Mr. Wheeler. But Captain Stayton has been working away "patiently" for eight years as the brain and muscle of the A. A. P. A. Now & again he is heard from, as he was last week...
Yesterday. The Anti-Saloon League, in convention, voted to forego the undercover method of ensuring enforcement by exerting strong pressure on Government officials, a method used so effectively by the late Wayne B Wheeler. Hereafter it will make a frontal attack with publicity, educational campaigns, and an attempt to answer and condemn all "wet" literature and periodicals. This change is hardly the result of the Hearst disclosures, but springs from the general public feeling against high-handed bureaucracy. Certainly it will ease the hearts and slow the pens of many who thought the League was leagued with the Devil...
...mirrors, cuspidors, dressing table^ ashtrays. These facts were well broadcast by the U. S. press. Actually a smoking lounge for women is no innovation. The Chief (Santa Fé) carries a smoking lounge for women on its observation car. The Lehigh Valley R. R. is installing a ladies' saloon with facilities for smokers in its new observation lounge cars, to be added soon to the Black Diamond express...