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Senator Robinson's other argument to leave liquor control exclusively to the States started a swirling debate around the ghost of the saloon. His deep chest heaving, Senator Robinson summed up after Senators Borah, Glass, Steiwer and Capper had been heard...
...Governor Ely's plan to force Massachusetts to be the first to ratify the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment is unseemly in view of the grave consequences and responsibility involved," declared A. J. Davis, head of the Massachusetts Anti-Saloon League, in an interview last night...
Continuing his remarks, Mr. Davis said that the wets have never been in the open. "We have nothing to hide," he asserted. "Have the wets given us any guarantees that the saloon will not return? The average voter should know in advance exactly what effect the repeal of Prohibition will have on his community; he must know what he will get in exchange for repeal. For us the fight has just begun...
...Bishop's opinion speakeasies, because of their prohibitive prices, are less harmful for the working man than the old-fashioned saloon, and "beer won't be served by your high society people at their evening teas...
...fine new church. But the people of Valby continued to ignore it, to patronize the Gammel Oestengaard, an alehouse across the way. Pastor Keiding bought the Gammel Oestengaard, improved its atmosphere, preached his gospel therein. Pleased, Pastor Keiding uttered a heady aphorism: "It is better to sit in a saloon and think about the church than to sit in a church and think about the saloon...