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...unfortunate, and I am sure unintentional implication, casts grave slur at my close friend and respected mentor, Dr. John F. "Jafsie" Condon. Passage follows: "Aftermath was the biggest party since 1929, the most elaborate display of individual and public drunkenness since 1920. In Jack Dempsey's saloon, grizzled old J. F. ("Jafsie") Condon told his life history to a stranger from Wisconsin. . . ." The article and passage quoted continues to enumerate other incidents in citation of "individual and public drunkenness...
Several of my friends inferred from the way this paragraph was written that Jafsie was drinking if not drunk in Jack Dempsey's "saloon" that night after the fight. Such is far from fact...
Same day, their mission completed, the Duke and the Donor sailed off in company with the Trophy for Europe. As the Normandie steamed down the harbor, no publicity-minded maiden swung in the rigging. But, holding forth in the saloon was Margaret Sanger, on her way to India to spread her gospel of Birth Control...
...shepherd a congregation of 160 families which has no church of its own. With some cash and the backing of the Lutheran Board of American Missions, Mr. Sathmary & flock made ready to buy one. Of 56 replies to their advertisement, eight offered to sell apartment houses, one a saloon. Mr. Sathmary's building committee began a painstaking tour of inspection of the other...
...William E. Lampe of Philadelphia: When a man spends so much time bringing back the saloon, pays so little attention to divorce and domestic disorder in his own family and attends worship so seldom, has he a right to expect the wholehearted support of the church...