Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three sides-the Wet side, the Dry side, the Right side. Last month he sent a telegram to Wet and Dry organizations saying that the return of beer presented a situation which would lead either to true temperance or to the return of the "liquor trade" and the saloon. He wanted cooperation in a nationwide campaign for socially constructive liquor laws...
...Clarence True Wilson, Methodist moralist, and in less generous vein Dr. Francis Scott McBride for the Anti-Saloon League, promised to cooperate. Not so Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole, the bustling matriarch of the W. C. T. U., whose plan is to find horrid examples of what 3.2% beer can do and use them to club down Repeal in perhaps 16 states, three more than enough to kill it.* She replied to Crusader Clark: "I assume you wired me for publicity purposes...
...plea that their domestic product was cheaper and stronger than the commercial article. ¶From Florida Col. Jacob Ruppert, president of the U. S. Brewers' Association, whose Manhattan plant is set to turn out 2,000,000 bbl. per year, announced: "We'll find the old saloon completely out of the picture. We'll find prototypes of the German beer garden springing up where your average New Yorker will bring his family. . . . We should and can have 5? beer. . . . I don't see the racketeer and the chiseler as problems to be considered. Their beer...
...Claiborne announced: "As a good drinking man I'm interested in this beer bill for drinking purposes. I not only want a good glass of beer but I want a good drink of whiskey and I hope the time will come when I can walk into a decent saloon and get both." Then he sat down, chewed his cigar impatiently...
Already the Anti-Saloon League was preparing to test the validity of the Cullen Act before the Supreme Court. Big question: is 3.2% beer intoxicating in fact? If so, the court would be inclined to rule that the law is unconstitutional under the 18th Amendment...