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...Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, firm teetotaler, proposed a Constitutional amendment modifying or repealing the 18th Amendment, ratification to be by a majority of the electors of three-fourths of the States. Two days later Bishop James Cannon Jr. approved the Byrd plan before a meeting of the Anti-Saloon League at Richmond. Day after that Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde returned from the Missouri State Republican convention and endorsed that body's appeal that Congress call a national Constitutional convention on Prohibition...
...Ohio is the birthplace of the Anti-Saloon League. A majority of Ohio's convention delegates will...
...Bulkley ran for the Senate as an out-and-out wet in the state of Ohio, home of the Anti-Saloon League, winning from the dry candidate, Roscoe, in a contest to fill the vacancy left by the death of Senator Burton. He will be up for reelection this year...
...list of charges against Sheriff Farley, demanded his ousting. Included was the $360,660 deposited by the sheriff in six years, which he feebly explained as coming out of a fabulous "tin box." His motley assortment of incompetent subordinates were also enumerated, including "BigHearted" Joe Flaherty, who gave a saloon to his brother because he was "sick and hard up," and his secretary, one McNulty, who denned his duties as "nothing in particular...
...Zelli is the name of a man who went to France after serving in the Italian Army, stayed in Paris to run a night club and became a byword for junketing college boys. Last autumn he closed up shop on depression-stricken Montmartre, came to Manhattan to run a saloon for Racketeer Owney Madden. Mr. Papavert is the translated version of a play which Mr. Zelli presented in Paris. It was originally of Teutonic extraction...