Word: stayton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Philip Hill of Baltimore, one-time (1915-17) Senator James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. of New York and President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, attended a dinner at the Union League Club, Manhattan. Mr. Wadsworth and President Butler made orations but the oracle of the evening was Captain Stayton, who outlined his Association's plans for next year...
...Captain Stayton repeated his remarks another evening at another dinner, given anonymously at a Manhattan hotel and attended by industrialists, bankers, lawyers...
...Captain Stayton's desires & devices were as follows...
...Captain Stayton paraphrased an imaginary income-taxpayer's reasoning: "'I want to get rid of these taxes. If the average man wants to drink beer and pay taxes on it, why, hell...
...Captain Stayton bowed to his chief foe. "The Anti-Saloon league is as afraid of a referendum as a woman is of a mouse...