Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chairman of this committee is Mr. Hudson, a benign and splendid gentleman, but he has been an official of the Anti-Saloon League. His mind is already made...
...Senate, Mr. Edwards of wet New Jersey proposed a national referendum? on prohibition, saying: "Of course, Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League, believes my proposal to submit to a referendum of the people the question as to whether we are to have wines and beers, is an 'illegal, impracticable proposal...
...impartial treatment of the criminal, fraudulent and deceitful administration of present enforcement measures would have no appeal to one who has been a consistent violator of the law himself and has browbeaten and intimidated legislators to promote iniquitous prohibition legislation drafted and lobbied through Congress by the Anti-Saloon League...
...Aged 71, he is a hermit-millionaire, a sea hermit (like the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer) sailing the seven seas on a yacht with padded decks. Again like Pulitzer, he cannot bear noise; his officers run his crew by dumb show. He smokes 50 cigars daily, sits in the saloon while two women alternately read to him. Satiated, he calls for his checkerboard. He cruises a course mapped to keep the Ohio in balmy climes. Last week he was forced to go ashore at Cape Town while the Ohio was dry-docked." - ED. Anti-Tobacco...
...Aged 71, he is a hermit-millionaire, a sea hermit (like the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer) sailing the seven seas on a yacht with padded decks. Again like Pulitzer, he cannot bear noise; his officers run his crew by dumb show. He smokes 50 cigars daily, sits in the saloon while two women alternately read to him. Satiated, he calls for his checkerboard. He cruises a course mapped to keep the Ohio in balmy climes. Last week he was forced to go ashore at Cape Town while the Ohio was dry-docked. Seizing rare opportunity, a correspondent wrote: "Like...