Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deal. The State repealed its "life-for-a-pint" law which sent fourth-offending liquor dispensers away for all time. From Michigan's habitual criminal act were excepted 120 minor felonies, including the wearing of a lodge pin without authority. As a compensation to the Anti-Saloon League, the State Legislature decreed that every prohibition violator must go to jail for from 50 days to four years, and pay a fine...
Seconding the nomination of Mrs. Willebrandt in the Christian Herald were: Bishop Thomas Nicholson, Anti-Saloon League president; F. Scott McBride, Anti-Saloon League superintendent; Raymond Robbins. "personal friend of Herbert Hoover"; Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole, W. C. T. U. president; Chairman Fred B. Smith of the Citizens Committee of 1,000; Edwin C. Dinwiddie, secretary of the National Conference of Organizations Supporting the 18th Amendment, and many another...
...good amateur musician, Mrs. Talbott was quick to see the worth in Conductor Williamson's work, to contribute generously her money and time. Aside from the choir, her interests have been manifold and great. She has been president of the Anti-Suffrage League in Ohio, of the Anti-Saloon League. She has been an active realtor in Miami. She is mother of nine children-seven comely daughters, all married, and two sons-Harold, a polo-playing director of Chrysler Corp., Dayton Steel Racquet Co., Sikorsky Aviation Co. and many another corporation, and Nelson ("Bud"), Yale football captain...
...from $24,000,000, which Georgia's Dry Senator Harris proposed for this extra appropriation, to $3,000,000 but contentment shone upon the face of Prohibitor F. Scott McBride, chief of the Anti-Saloon League, who, while hovering about the Capitol to see that some bill was passed, heard himself called "the Super-President of the United States...
Contented. also was Georgia's Harris. He, speaking the Anti-Saloon mind, said...