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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comedy in three acts by Viva Tatterstall and Sidney Toler, now playing at the Wilbur, with the following cast: Edgar Smith Richard Taber Nancy Smith Edna Hibbard Tillie Muriel Owen Mr. Peabody Bennett R. Finn Louella McKenzie Ivy Merton Maude Mooney Henriette Farley Oscar Mooney Lloyd Nolan Charlie McKenzie James Spottswood...

Author: By B. Oc, | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 6/3/1931 | See Source »

...more national magazines. The A. B. M. P. F. was incorporated last January. During the summer it started to raise $10,000,000 for Dry propaganda. Its advisory committee was then known to include such believers in Prohibition as Chainstoreman James Cash Penney, National Grange Master Louis John Taber, Authors Zane Grey and Zona Gale. Last week the organization announced a total membership of more than 2,000 businessmen scattered over 46 states. Its program had been endorsed by Chain Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett. Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times, Publisher William Hutchinson Cowles of the Spokane Spokesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A.B.M.P.F. | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

Milk Drinkers. Speaking for a "million farmers," Louis John Taber, Master of the National Grange, fairly flooded the committee with agricultural statistics to establish the benefits U. S. husbandmen have received from Prohibition. His best statistic: before Prohibition every U.S. citizen drank 42 4/10 gal. of milk per year; today each drinks 60 gal. He argued that grains which once went into liquor now make breakfast foods, that corn is higher in value now than before 1920, that the price of grapes has increased. Mr. Taber painted farm conditions in such cheerful colors that he seemed sorely embarrassed when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Dry Defense | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

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