Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week U. S. Dry agents, spurred by complaints of the Anti-Saloon League, raided Vino Sano's sales office on lower Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, where a land office trade was being done. Arrested were the manager and two salesmen; seized were 3.000 bricks...
Magnesians, to whom a coffee house is the equivalent of a saloon (pious Mohammedans are total abstainers), wandered wistfully about the streets, gossipped loudly, cursed Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha under their breath...
...months lay Drys have been restive under the domination of their cause by such ecclesiastical organizations as the Anti-Saloon League and the W. C. T. U. Muffled complaints were made that clerics were always in high command of Prohibition campaigns, that churches were the only rallying places for the 18th Amendment. To secularize the Dry cause became the purpose of Allied Forces. Dr. Poling called it a "new deal." Among its sponsors was no long list of churchmen but such names as Thomas Alva Edison, Gifford Pinchot, Jane Addams, Evangeline Booth, Patrick Henry Callahan, Oliver Wayne Stewart, Raymond Robins...
Rose Milligan, a barmaid in Louth, Ireland, whose nom de plume on the ticket was "My Pub Now" because she had always wanted to own a saloon. She said that with her $50,000 she would...
...with her. She said: "No one could see your meetings and not be im pressed with the number of women of wealth present. May we ask you how many of these have felt the pinch of poverty that goes with liquor or who will be the victims if the saloon, or any other place where liquor is openly dispensed, comes back? Are we not right in saying that it is not the protected women of wealth but the women who toil who will suffer...