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Drys. Most famed of lobbyists are Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Board of Temperance and Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League...
...anxious to stamp out. His speech did not fall on entirely deaf ears. Last week one New Yorker with the courage of his indiscretions, Henry C. Murphy of the Curb Exchange, appeared before the Prohibition Administrator with the information that he had been detained in a Manhattan West Side saloon for 48 hours, liquored, doped, threatened, made to sign $2,000 worth of checks. Three Prohibition agents accompanied Broker Murphy to the place, arrested three startled men and two women for violating the Prohibition Act. Well pleased, Commissioner Mulrooney's men started building up evidence for a kidnapping charge...
...York members of the Ornery Men's Club the acquisition of a new and noble member?Governor 'Alfalfa Bill? Murray of Oklahoma," said Clubfounder Volney T. Hoggatt of Denver. The Ornery Men's Club was organized in 1900 in the late Sports Promoter George L.("Tex") Rickard's saloon at Nome, Alaska. Original members include Rickard, Hoggatt, U. S. Senator Key Pittmann of Nevada, Novelist Rex Beach, Capone Attorney Albert Fink. Some qualifications for Ornery Club membership: wearing "good luck" galluses; finger-jabbing people in the chest while conversing; messing in the kitchen; carrying love charms; wearing No. 17 celluloid...
...have to take the consequences. That's all." This White House visitation prompted Rollin Kirby to produce for the New York World-Telegram a cartoon of the kind that made him famous: Mr. Hoover, hot and worried in his shirt sleeves, at an old fashioned tub scrubbing "Anti-Saloon Linen" while a severe old woman, her arms crossed, stands by to keep him at his job. Title: "Our Man!" ¶The temperature rose to 78° in Washington one day last week. The air-conditioning machine was turned on at the White House. ¶Thirty-five newspaper editors spent...
...first of six Mix talking pictures which Universal is to produce, all preceded by loud publicity, one might suspect that Producer Carl Laemmle Jr. constructed Destry Rides Again with his tongue in his cheek. Containing all the old trappings of silent pre-War Westerns, with a main street, a saloon entitled "The Golden Girl," a stage coach holdup, fast riding accompanied by studio clatter of horses' hoofs, it has the original plot about the hero running for sheriff, who is double-crossed by his supposed friends, with Right flourishing at the finish...