Word: stayton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...money for increasing the membership and influence has been contributed by wealthy members of the Pierre Samuel du Pont, Charles H. Sabin, Haley Fiske type. Until this year, the A. A. P. A. had only one office, in Baltimore. Its founder and guiding spirit, Captain William H. Stayton, was not dependent on the A. A. P. A. for his livelihood. Long before he began the A. A. P. A. he had, and has ever since, conducted a comfortable Baltimore shipping business...
...Methodist Episcopal Church. Beside them were two Wilson Cabinet men, Josephus Daniels and Carter Glass. Opposing, sat truculent young Senator Tydings of Maryland, arch Senator Edwards of New Jersey, solid Senator Wagner of New York and other Wets. Hovering near were Anti-Saloon Leaguers; Captain William H. Stayton of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment; many a busybody, many a crank. Sebastian Spering Kresge, 5-and-10-cent man, was there, presumably to see that the Anti-Saloon League was mak-ing good use of some of the $500,000 he gave it last winter (TIME...
...executive in a newly created position of president. The new man is Major Henry Hastings Curran, able lawyer, onetime (1920-21) Borough President of Manhattan, onetime (1923-26) U. S. Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island, N. Y. Major Curran will be the lieutenant of Captain William H. Stayton, who remains Chairman of the A. A. P. A. Board of Directors...
Among the others was Capt. William H. Stayton of Baltimore, active chief of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. That was what the secret meeting last week, at Mr. Wadsworth's house, portended. All those present were "Wets." They called themselves the Moderation League, Inc. They would not tell precisely what they talked about. All they would say was that the Moderation League Inc., without superseding Captain Stayton's A. A. P. A., would promote a national non-partisan movement to clarify Prohibition's place in 1928 election platforms...
...Superintendent McBride of the Anti-Saloon League bowed to Captain Stayton and the A. A. P. A.: "They can get it [U. S. sentiment on liquor] for 50c in any good almanac or other compilation of the returns of last election...