Word: salooners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...want Prohibition modified, but they will want it modified in the direction of genuine temperance. That means that they will not want it modified by Tammany Hall, which, as everybody knows, has always been hand-in-glove with the liquor interests and has always in the past supported the saloon and been supported by the saloon...
...enforce the 18th Amendment.* Last week he had something to say after Nominee Smith had suggested changing the statute. Said Andrew J. Volstead: "Every organization against Prohibition will support him. They are too shrewd to be scared by any protestation by the Governor that he is opposed to the saloon. They know that the policy that he has advocated will in the end restore the liquor traffic if the scheme he suggests is adopted...
Governor Zimmerman, once a La Follettite, early advertised himself as a ticket-mate of Nominee Hoover. He got himself endorsed by the W. C. T.U. and the Anti-saloon League...
Ohio. With a Democratic Governor, a Democratic Senator, several Democratic Representatives and several Wet cities, the home state of seven Republican Presidents and the birth state of the Anti-Saloon League is inscrutable political ground this year. The Anti-Saloon League apparently demonstrated continued vitality in last week's primary. Both the candidates whom it endorsed for Governor were winners-Myers Y. Cooper of Cincinnati (Republican) and U. S. Representative Martin L. Davey* of Kent (Democrat). Both the League's candidates for the seat of its dead champion, Senator Willis, came out ahead-U.S. Representative Theodore Elijah...
...Twenty years ago, in a poor saloon on the outskirts of Baku, near the factory quarters, one could meet a badly dressed young man with crooked nose, low forehead and coal-black hair. He was a Georgian, the publisher of the workmen's paper. He called himself Koba, Nischeradse, Tschischikov, Ivanovitsch, and, lastly, Stalin. His real name was Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili...