Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME YOUR JUDGMENT HAS FLED TO BRUTISH BEASTS IMAGINE A ROMAN CATHOLIC SECRETARY OF WAR IN A KLU KLUX ANTI SALOON ADMINISTRATION TIME ACT YOUR AGE PATRICK HURLEY DOES NOT PROFESS THE ROMAN CATHOLIC FAITH...
...than his own Attorney-General, and of treating the G. O. P. North, better than the G. O. P., South. Likewise abuse was heaped upon the President's appointment of Richard Joseph Hopkins as a U. S. Judge in Kansas, charged with accepting speaking fees from the Anti-Saloon League while a staff official...
...painted ocean is the Ambrose. Until last week she had not moved, except up and down with the tides, for 22 years. The steam that has been up in her boilers all that time was at last put to work, the pinochle game of a generation in her saloon was for once interrupted, her crew of 14 at last had something to do besides polish brass and blow the siren, as she pointed her blunt prow for a momentous voyage...
...Other Piggott campaigning methods included a "Sermon Against Booze" on each pay statement. Typical of these was: "To the married man who thinks he cannot get along without his drinks the following is suggested as a solution to the bondage of the habit: "1. Start a saloon in your own house. "2. Be the only customer and you will have no license to pay. Give your wife $2 to buy a gallon of whiskey and remember that there are 69 drinks to the gallon. "3. Buy your drinks from no one but your wife. By the time the first gallon...
...better that what it displaced, why not say frankly that it has done a great deal of good, but hadn't accomplished all that was expected of it. If that is not true, why are the wets so vociferous in proclaiming that they do not want the saloon back? If it is true, why not admit it frankly and then see what is next to be done...