Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ohio. The big issue was a referendum on a bill which would have reestablished "kangaroo courts" (justices of the peace who share in the fines they impose for liquor law violation).*The Anti-Saloon League pressed the bill as a Wet & Dry issue. The bill was defeated by some 300,000 votes. ... In Cleveland it was voted not to revert to mayoralty form of government, to retain the city manager plan, of which Cleveland is the most populous exponent...
...hack, were his first professional property. He became Topeka's favorite hackman. Between calls he studied law, and gained admission to the bar at 21. At 24, he was elected county prosecutor and, when the Kansans denied themselves alcohol, he had to close up the Topeka saloons. His saloon-closing performance sent him to the Legislature. Thence he reached Congress, in 1893. He was a House member for 14 years, a Senator for three six-year terms thereafter...
...means hang, draw and quarter Mr. Curtis and preserve his remains in the Anti-Saloon League museum at Mansfield as another souvenir of our progress toward true liberty and patriotism, under the guidance of the Watch and Ward zealots...
...error. Theodore Douglas Robinson is Assistant Secretary of the Navy. - ED. †An error. TIME reproves no subscriber. - ED. *A mistake. There is no Anti-Saloon League museum at Mansfield. The League's headquarters are at Westerville, Ohio...
...first became cabin boy after running away from the patrician respectability of his home. Like the hero of the Aeneid, he suffered many hardships upon land and sea, at one time even becoming, as did John Masefield and an equally August Figure in American poetry, interested in keeping a saloon. It might be ungracious to continue the parallel of Mr. Masefield and the A. F. further, but it would appear that Count Luckner drank up most of his profits and even part of his capital in this undertaking, and soon went to sea again...