Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...filled the air. The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment reported that it had spent the whacking sum of $385,392 in the first five months of this year, was prepared to make a million-dollar outlay in its 1930 campaign to foster the movement for a Change. The Anti-Saloon League, taking the defensive, declared: "The Wets have forced the issue [now] more clearly drawn than at any time since the coming of Prohibition. It is a poor year for wobblers...
Last week Ohio's Democracy appeared in the same Prohibition motley when Nominee Bulkley faced his party's convention at Columbus, flayed the 18th Amendment and the Anti-Saloon League ("It is no more needed today than an anti-slavery society") and expressed surprising satisfaction with a platform that weasled on Prohibition as obviously as did the Republicans. His Wet candidacy was endorsed "without a reservation" by the party's bone-Dry gubernatorial nominee, George White...
From 1912 to last week a revered Baptist minister superintended the multifarious business of the Colorado Anti-Saloon League. One of his functions: choice of local political candidates to be endorsed by the League. High public officials sought his political blessing. After the Dry landslide of 1928 he, if gifted with egotism, may well have fancied he superintended the entire State...
...high financier, president of Fitzsimmons Oil & Leasing Co. On any sale of Fitzsimmons stock he received a 25% commission. He made of his affiliations with public officials and aspirants opportunities to talk oil, to make 25%- personal-profit sales. The Fitzsimmons property became known as "the Anti-Saloon Oil Well." Last week this admixture of Drywork and Mammonwork led him, Rev. Arthur J. Finch, to resign his superintendency in disgrace. Moreover, it caused the Colorado A. S. L. to decide no successor would be appointed, to admit temporary collapse...
Last week investigators of the Senate Campaign Funds Committee were in Denver, examining the books of the Denver Anti-Saloon League...