Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even the Prohibitionists, headed by Wayne H. Wheeler, the leader of the Anti-Saloon League, favored his removal. For Wilson is of a calibre incommensurate with the needs of a high-class executive...
...camphor for instance, which contains ninety per cent of alcohol, because camphor is not potable. On the other hand it would cover every form of fake drugs, which were potable, provided they contained as much as one-half of one per cent. Through the efforts of The Oklahoma Anti-Saloon League and through the championship of Honorable Charles N. Haskell, the first Governor of Oklahoma, the substance of this definition was made a part of the enforcement act, although the wording was changed and somewhat elaborated. In actual experience the definition, forced upon the State of Oklahoma by the warfare...
When knockout drops in the form of the Volstead Act for enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment were served up to John Barleycorn last January, the Anti Saloon League thought he had passed out forever form American life. Temporarily he had, but the combination of wood alcohol and the W. C. T. U.'s "Tobacco Next" campaign showed that, like Mark Twain, his obituary notice was "greatly exaggerated...
Today, when every morning's paper brings news of towns that have been dry for generations landsliding into the wet column; when 2.75 per cent, and 3.50 per cent beers are being upheld by local courts throughout the country; When the workings of the Anti-Saloon League are being investigated by the New York Assembly, we find Mr. Barleycorn exhibiting the same old kick that made him famous...
...done so, but the majorities were everywhere so large that had the uncounted voters all cast their ballots "dry" the plurality must still have been anti-prohibition. As long as the townsmen could keep their cellars supplied from Boston, they voted to keep their back yards free from the saloon. It was really not a moral objection that caused them to vote "dry", as is shown by their reversal of opinion after prohibition had taken effect in Boston. A practical lesson in the ethics of voting should be drawn from this weak policy of moral vacillation, that another such mistake...