Word: salooners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Water power, plus farm relief, minus Volstead modification, was the pro-Smith formula of Senator Norris of Nebraska (TIME, Nov. 5). He followed through with it strongly last week throughout the Northwest. He converted his Dry wife but earned the pious fury of the Anti-Saloon League...
Prohibition-Here a split. Wet Republicans insisted that they hoped to see "the experiment noble in motive" worked out "constructively" by Hoover and that "constructively" would mean "liberally," i.e., modification. Dry Republicans approved the words of Superintendent Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League of America, whose election proclamation...
...thorough vindication of the Anti-Saloon League, which was bitterly attacked by Gov. Smith throughout the campaign...
Hypocrisy. "If every one had voted the way they drink-" That was another undemonstrable probability. But the most embarrassing things Democrats said to Republicans had reference to the G. O. P.'s "domination" by the Anti-Saloon League, past and future...
Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News, both outspokenly Wet, under the same ownership, supported Hoover and Smith, respectively. But the Chicago Tribune sensationally denounced the Ku Klux Klan and the Anti-Saloon League as "twin calamities" in the Hoover campaign...