Word: saloons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wayne B. Wheeler, counsel for the Anti-Saloon League, who twice gave Senator Reed tit for tat, mocking the Senator's gestures of eyebrow and cigar with his own eyebrows and a busy pencil (See PROHIBITION...
...about Senator James A. Reed of Missouri. Set to nose out the labyrinthine political finances of the Pennsylvania primaries (TIME May 31 et seq. THE CONGRESS,) he tested all winds eagerly for a whiff of larger game. Last fortnight his vigilance was rewarded; he coursed off after the Anti-Saloon League, in the person of its counsel, Wayne B. Wheeler, on the pretext of getting evidence of Wet moneys expended for Candidate Vare. Last week he was not astonished to find that this new quarry had a mate the gentle, bright-eyed Women's Christian Temperance Union. Swerving, Senator...
...Anti-Saloon League. Senator Reed called Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel and "legislative representative" of the Anti-Saloon League. The pretext for calling him was that he had sent the committee information that Wet interests had contributed to Mr. Vare's campaign but the real reason was that Senator Reed has been eager to dig into the affairs of the Anti-Saloon League. During an interval in the hearings, Mr. Wheeler looking rather worn, and wearing a too-large collar approached Mr. Reed...
Later Mr. Wheeler was called to the stand. He said he was 56, born at Brookfield, Ohio, had worked for the Anti-Saloon League since 1894, began at a salary of $100 a month but only got about a third of it, was now drawing $666 a month. Senator Reed questioned him about cases in which he had "interfered" with the prosecution of prohibition agents who were accused. Mr. Wheeler, fidgeting nervously with his glasses, said his organization tried to help those who, it believed, were "framed." Senator Reed asked how much the National Organization (exclusive of the state bodies...
...principles of the Quebec plan, I believe, are sound. The plan, as a result of the Government taking over the sale exclusively of all alcoholic beverages and forbidding the consumption of those beverages upon the premises where sold, does away with the saloon and the private liquor traffic. Furthermore, the plan does not permit the establishment of a Government liquor store in any community which has voted that it does not want such a store...