Word: salooners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tired of concocting, weasling. Nominee Smith suddenly turned on the famed chefs, told them to eat their own mud pie. He issued a lengthy statement. He explained his every vote as a New York Assemblyman on bills connected with prostitution, gambling, the saloon. He said...
...believe, everything considered, that I should retain the Eighteenth Amendment (because I could not do otherwise) and that I should resolve to apply it. I should continue the suppression of the saloon and of all public sale of alcohol. I have never seen the American saloon, but judging from what I have heard of it, it was a dangerous institution. On the other hand, I should try to induce Congress to amend the Volstead act so as to permit the private consumption of wine and beer in the states which desire it. But I should place a heavy tax upon...
...placarded the Anti-Saloon League during the War. A result, according to President August Adolph Busch of Anheuser-Busch, Inc. (St. Louis), was to close up $300,000,000 worth of British-owned brewing properties in the U. S. This and other grievances were recalled last week by Brewer Busch when he beheld a current announcement from Anti-Saloon headquarters that the brewers of the U. S. were going to hold a "secret meeting" in behalf of Nominee Smith next month. Brewer Busch, posted on the plans of his industry, called the announcement "an adroit attempt to confuse the voters...
...public against the law which outlawed his ancestral business. But last week he said: "After eight years of miserable Prohibition failure, with its paralyzing corruption, its demoralization of youth, its rum-running, moonshining, bootlegging and consequent terrifying crime and other deep-seated evils -for all of which the Anti-Saloon League is directly responsible- Mr. Cherrington ["Educational Director" of the League] seems to be in mortal fear lest what was once the brewing industry should exercise good citizenship by helping to clear up the nauseating mess into which the Anti-Saloon League had dragged the country...
...Anti-Saloon League has collected more than $70,000,000 to make bootlegging and moonshining one of the big, safe, profitable institutions. . . . The fanatical fervor of the Anti-Saloon League for the bone-dry law that has popularized drinking and upset our nation-old standard of respect for law, is due to the financial rewards they pay themselves out of the money they get for falsely representing that Prohibition is an unqualified success...