Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Wayne B. Wheeler, 57, famed general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League of America; at Battle Creek (Mich.) sanitarium; of kidney ailment...
Died. Mrs. Wayne B. Wheeler, 51, wife of the Anti-Saloon League counsel, from burns when an oil stove exploded in their summer cottage at Shelby, Mich. Mr. Candy, 81, her father, with her at the time, died from shock when he saw the flames envelop Mrs. Wheeler...
...TIME, June 6, in the article entitled "Anti-Saloon," J. T. Henderson is listed as president of Oberlin College. He is not. Henry Churchill King is president of Oberlin College, a Congregational institution founded in 1833. J. T. Henderson is president of Oberlin Business College, a commercial school which gives six months' and longer courses in bookkeeping, typewriting, stenography and kindred subjects. The business college has no connection with the college. If rewrite men cannot carry in their heads names of college presidents (surely not an impossible task) a copy of the World Almanac...
...Upshaw, long a professional orator, listened admiringly to General Superintendent F. Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League, who told all the Wets to "go out in the Atlantic Ocean, build an island of your beer kegs. . . . This Governor of New York," continued Mr. McBride, "who nullified state rights by signing a bill to repeal his state enforcement act, wants to transfer his activities to the White House. Are we going...
Resolutions to appoint the Anti-Saloon League as an official agency of the Baptist Church and to appropriate $10,000 for Prohibition enforcement, were lost by wide margins. Other resolutions approved the League's work, flayed the U. S. Senate committee which last summer publicly investigated the League's books...