Word: saloons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South African and South American tour (TIME, March 23 to Oct. 26, 1925) he one evening unexpectedly sauntered with his ukelele on his arm into the saloon car occupied by South African newsgatherers. "In five minutes he had the whole crowd going at the top of its form. It was like a scene in the anteroom of an officers' mess after dinner on guest-night with the senior subaltern as master of ceremonies. Every eye was on the Prince, every face smiling, some with sheer de light, others with wonder...
...barbarous and un-American answer of the Anti-Saloon League is that it makes little difference how many times a man who violates the national prohibition law is put in jeopardy for one and the same...
Alongside of the moneyed Anti-Saloon League, the finances of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment are mere elves, but they grow. Last week the Wet organization filed its report with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, announced receipts of $275,545 and expenditures of $215,070 from Jan. 1 to Oct. 1, 1926. The largest contributor was Edward S. Harkness of Manhattan, Director of the New York Central; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and many another railroad, son of the late famed oil magnate Stephen V. Harkness. Mr. Harkness gave $7,500 and loaned $2,500. His sister...
...Waupun, Wis., speeches were made, presents given, and an old man stood up to thank his friends for remembering him. He, one William Maxwell, 88, had completed his fifty-fourth year in the State penitentiary. He once killed a man in a saloon brawl...
Premier Baldwin, showing the mailed fist so forcibly applied in the current coal strike, thought that, although all the members of Parliament were not associated with the Anti-Saloon League, at least the House should not let a breath of the affair get outside. It is quite a pity that with all the strength on his side, as shown by the House's vote against Salter, the Premier could not have shown more spirit in the matter either by declaring himself in favor of a cleaner Commons or of a strict laisser-faire policy in regard to the personal rights...