Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later, the New Jersey Democrats, traditionally Wet, issued their platform. Said they: "We congratulate our opponents upon their public espousal of this fundamental Democratic doctrine" [States Rights]. Rev. James K. Shields, Superintendent of the New Jersey Anti-Saloon League, warned his fellow Drys that traditional, militant Wets were not so much a danger to their credo as "the Morrow type . . . much more to be feared: the quiet, dignified, scholarly churchman of evangelical persuasion, who never rants but nevertheless stands for the action that would be fatal to the 18th Amendment...
...penury of actor members who, pinched by unsuccessful seasons, could not pay their house charges. Shepherd Royle jovially diagnosed the present condition of show business as similar to the plight of a legendary unfortunate who was "shot in the liver, lights, vitals and lower part of the saloon." The audible cinema he considered a contributory ailment...
...Professor Irving Fisher campaigned for Mr. Fort, Princeton's President John Grier Hibben spoke for Mr. Morrow. Beneath the high-toned surface, however, Dry leaders and Republican machine bosses, upset by the diversity of major candidates (one John A. Kelly also ran), battled for their political lives. The Anti-Saloon League, realizing that Candidate Morrow's reputation, coupled with his clearcut Wet stand (TIME, May 26) would make him a prime U. S. anti-Prohibition leader in Congress, waged a win-or-die fight for his biggest opponent, roused Protestant ministers and Y. M. C. A. men, made much...
...remained for the Dry partisan Christian Century last week to inform its small portion of the reading public that on June 3, in Los Angeles, the Rev. Edwin Courtland Dinwiddie, onetime officer of the Anti-Saloon League, was awarded $150,000 damages against Publisher William Randolph Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner. All Los Angeles dailies of June 3 and 4 spurned the story, as did most of the news services...
United Presbyterians. At their General Assembly, continuing into last week at Des Moines, the United Presbyterian Church of North America was pleased that in the "thorough investigation recently conducted by the Senate Lobby Committee (TiME, May 19) the integrity of the Anti-Saloon League had once more been publicly confirmed." General superintendent of the League is Francis Scott McBride. ordained United Presbyterian minister. The Assembly was opposed to "drinking scenes in the movies showing the use of intoxicants as attractive, adventurous and fashionable" and to "insinuations favorable to intoxicating liquors in the fiction pages of leading magazines." It also condemned...