Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addicts who had given up drink for one reason or another. But never from statutory compulsion. . . . We went to see Jane Addams at Hull House in Chicago. We also interviewed Volstead with no result and simply dozens of leaders of the Salvation Army, W. C. T. U. and Anti-Saloon League. . . . We encountered a lot of talk and argument but we weren't looking for arguments. We were looking for people who had been saved from drink by the Volstead Act and we didn't find...
Herex: "Quoting and imitating Joe, who is dead and consequently unable to tell his own story, Mrs. Schultz gnashed her teeth, assumed a diabolical leer, and cried: 'Didn't I tell you if you ever went gadding to that saloon again I'd kill you?' That was what poor Joe is supposed to have told his misunderstood wife before she resorted to her little gun to correct his manners...
...possible reason for these omissions appeared when, as a native Kansan, Vice President Curtis declared himself Dry. Said he: "I am a strong believer in the rule of the majority but I am opposed to the return of the saloon and the repeal of the 18th Amendment." Wet Republican editors tush-tushed the vice-presidential nominee for failing to stand by President Hoover's State option formula. Gleefully exclaimed Democratic Chairman Farley: "It looks as if the Republican ticket had a half-dry head and a dried-out tail...
...Constitution gives the President no power or authority with respect to changes in the Constitution itself; nevertheless my countrymen have a right to know my conclusions upon this matter. ... A change is necessary. . . . That change must avoid the return of the saloon...
...right to deal with the problem as it may determine, but subject to absolute guaranties in the Constitution of the United States to protect each State from interference and invasion by its neighbors, and that in no part of the United States shall there be a return of the saloon system. . . . Sufferings. "Today millions of our fellow-countrymen are out of work. . . . Many millions more ... are haunted by fears for the future. No man with a spark of humanity can sit in my place without suffering from the picture of their anxieties and hardships before him day and night...