Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your recent comment on the Anti-Saloon League Convention at St. Louis [TIME, Dec. 16] was curt, clear, but incomplete and incorrect...
...course there are only two basic ideas about liquor, wet and dry. If anyone expected the Anti-Saloon League to change its fundamental idea" that intoxicating beverages are harmful, dangerous and habit-forming, and therefore the traffic therein should be suppressed, they were of course disappointed. As for new ideas about how to advocate the cause of sobriety TIME itself referred to the new songs introduced at St. Louis, and the press associations considered the plan of home talent dramas developed by the Anti-Saloon League sufficiently new to give the story nationwide circulation. Also there was the new idea...
...Anti-Saloon League of America...
...sorry tradition of pre-War operetta librettos. Spirited but silly, its best moments are those in which hook-nosed Willie Howard, as a Jewish gold prospector from the Deep South, and bespectacled Herb Williams, as a rapacious insurance salesman, engage in vaudeville patter in the Golden Nugget Saloon; and those in which Miss Swarth out, with or without the somewhat tremulous accompaniment of Mr. Boles, sings // I Should Lose You, Little Rose of the Rancho, The Vigilante Song, Where Is My Love. By her singing Contralto Swarthout makes it clear that, in the current operatic sweepstakes, she will...
...from partisan issues, it is difficult to sec how the move can be checked. By organizing the electorate in the districts, by focussing attention on the attitude of the representative towards the Townsend Plan, they can exert a measure of power whose weight was vividly demonstrated by the Anti-Saloon League...