Word: saloons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stroke was bold and probably judicious. For months the rival factions in the Chamber have played party politics while the franc fell-have displayed the acumen of drunkards gambling in a burning saloon. Not to stake all upon forcing some definite program to an issue, was to court more months of mad trifling while the franc collapsed. Moreover a precedent had been established for franc-saving-by-dictatorship only a few days before, when the Belgian Parliament buried its party differences, and all but unanimously conferred dictatorial power upon King Albert (See BELGIUM...
...Investment." Senator Reed later returned his attention to mild-mannered Counsel Wayne B. Wheeler of the Anti-Saloon League, asking him if he had been correctly reported in a speech three years ago to the effect that Drys had "invested" 35 millions in Prohibition. Mr. Wheeler thought that was approximately the amount, counting in all the different agencies embattled. He admitted that for "a few years" just prior to the passage of the Amendment the League's bills had come to $2,500,000 per annum. For the years 1921-25 inclusive, the national body of the League...
Later examination of Mr. Wheeler brought forth figures indicating that the total Anti-Saloon League "investment" was nearer 60 millions. The figures for four state subsidiaries of the League were furnished, expenditures of the past six years...
...gestures and a series of "nagging" letters from various reformers moved Mr. Andrews to write a letter to President Ella A. Boole of the W. C. T. U. scouting the drugstore concoction as unpalatable and frankly begging "people"-i. e. the W. C. T. U. and the Anti-Saloon League-to "quit making so much disturbance about little matters and assist the government in accomplishing some big matters...
...long been customary in Minnesota for the Anti-Saloon League to nominate all Republican and Farmer-Labor candidates for Congress. But in last week's Minnesota primaries, two small blots appeared upon this record. Dissatisfied with its servant of the past four terms, Representative Oscar E. Keller, the League advanced a new candidate in Keller's district (St. Paul). Keller ran on his record independently when out of the business district suddenly appeared a 28-year-old Wet bond salesman, one Melvin J. Maas, to confound them both. St. Paul voters gave Salesman Maas more votes than...