Word: saloons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anti-Saloon League held its annual convention at Washington, celebrated the fourth anniversary of the 18th Amendment and its own 30th jubilee. The more prominent speakers, with brief excerpts from their addresses...
Divorced. Sebastian S. Kresge, Ten Cent Store operator and Anti-Saloon League agitator, by Mrs. Anna E. Harvey Kresge, at Detroit. She charged lack of affection, accused him of five years' sulking...
...strange tribe of Indians ruled over by a squad of two hundred white women. Here is, indeed, a case of snarled complexes--Kawaian, Amazonian, perhaps even a "Green Mansion" complex. The details of the story were given to the party by a sea-faring man in a waterfront saloon of Marseilles. He had once travelled near the land of the multitudinous queens and had been told of their ex-stance by down-river Indians who knew of it from hearsay. With the facts thus established beyond a shadow of a doubt, the success of the expedition is almost certain...
...Association against the Prohibition Amendment launched plans for a conference to be held in Washington on Jan. 21, immediately after a conference of the Anti-Saloon League. It is to be called a "face-the-facts" conference. The list of names, prepared by Captain W. H. Stayton, head of the Association, in connection with the conference was imposing...
...embezzlement of state funds, in 1921. He fought trial for nine months, but when it finally took place, (1922) he was acquitted. Subsequently three of the jurors and the sheriff who had charge of the jury at the trial were given places on the state payroll. In 1923 a saloon keeper confessed having given a cash bribe to one of the three jurors. They were indicted. Two other men, one a labor leader, the other a detective, were subpoenaed to give evidence. They declined to talk on the ground that it might incriminate them. The State granted them immunity. They...