Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich O N T thread* family, he was born in Newark, learned law at Harvard, served in the A. E. F. He lives quietly in Princeton, has not taken a drink since Prohibition became law. In 1925 President Coolidge appointed him to the bench after the Anti-Saloon League's late great Wayne Bidwell Wheeler had indorsed him as a thoroughgoing Dry. A natural scholar, he assembled years of reading and research in his decision. Thirty-three of his decisions have been carried to higher courts; only three have been reversed. Appeal. Attorney General Mitchell immediately ordered the Sprague...
First the Drys met as members of the National Temperance Council. Then overnight they shuffled offices and titles and became the National Conference of Organizations Supporting the 18th Amendment. Present were all the prime professional Prohibitors-Francis Scott McBride (Anti-Saloon League), Clarence True Wilson (Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals), Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole (Women's Christian Temperance Union), Ernest Hurst Cherrington (World League Against Alcoholism), Oliver Stewart (Flying Squadron Foundation), Daniel Alfred Poling (World Christian Endeavor), Clinton Howard (National United Committee on Law Enforcement), Arthur James Barton (Southern Baptists), William Sheafe Chase (International Reform Bureau...
...Anti-Saloon League of New Jersey arranged to have Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, at a future date, answer six questions anent Prohibition. Last week Mr. Edison declared: "[Senator Dwight Whitney] Morrow knows nothing of the business and industrial world. For many years he has been cooped up in an office, away from the workingman. When he demands Repeal he doesn't know what he's talking about. . . . Prohibition is eternally correct. And even if the 18th Amendment is lost, the people will battle...
Herald. In Manhattan, Editor Stanley Hoflund High of the Christian Herald (monthly) assured members of the Anti-Saloon League: "The fate of Prohibition will be the fate of President Hoover...
...Paris was the Provençal dialect of most of its actors. This effect, of course, is completely lacking in the U. S. production, somewhat limiting the power of the original play which was largely a collection of swift, thoroughgoing character sketches. The action takes place in a waterfront saloon, the son (Alexander Kirkland) of whose ponderous proprietor (Dudley Digges) is sea-struck. He must choose between going to the South Seas and remaining with his sweetheart (Frances Torchiana), both families being longtime friends. Throughout this tale of youthful self-sacrifice are interpolated visitors to the estaminet: a pompous ferryboat...