Word: wheeler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slope of Capitol Hill, in neat position to help the U. S. government function, lives the Anti-Saloon League of America. Its building is of humble brick, painted a bellicose red. Upon its windows in large gold letters is painted the name: "Wayne B. Wheeler...
What the Anti-Saloon League has done, the Association against the Prohibition Amendment seeks to undo. What the late Wayne B. Wheeler was to Dryness, Captain William H. Stayton is to Wetness. Captain Stayton, an ex-Navy man now in the shipping business at Baltimore, is less vocal than was Mr. Wheeler. But Captain Stayton has been working away "patiently" for eight years as the brain and muscle of the A. A. P. A. Now & again he is heard from, as he was last week...
Yesterday. The Anti-Saloon League, in convention, voted to forego the undercover method of ensuring enforcement by exerting strong pressure on Government officials, a method used so effectively by the late Wayne B Wheeler. Hereafter it will make a frontal attack with publicity, educational campaigns, and an attempt to answer and condemn all "wet" literature and periodicals. This change is hardly the result of the Hearst disclosures, but springs from the general public feeling against high-handed bureaucracy. Certainly it will ease the hearts and slow the pens of many who thought the League was leagued with the Devil...
...Chief of the Bureau of Investigation in the Department of Justice under Harry Micajah Daugherty (1921-24), he was quizzed by Senate investigators about the use of one of the Bureau's codes? in an alleged Teapot Dome crockery; about trying to get evidence to "smear" Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, one of the oil scandal investigators; and about an alleged conspiracy with Mr. Daugherty to permit illegal transport of Dempsey-Carpentier fight films. Nothing came of these investigation but "Villain" Burns resigned a few weeks after "Villain" Daugherty. The new Attorney General (Harlan Piske Stone...
...summary HARVARD '31 DARTMOUTH '31 Upton, he r.e., Stokes Warner, l.t. r.t. O' Connor, Brown Trainor. l.g. r.g. Wheeler Gildea, Richards. e. e. Andres, Burrows Gade, r.g. l.g. Bromberg Johnson, r.t. l.t. Gilchrist Ogden, r.e. l.e. Hughes, Hetfield Gilligan, Talbot q.b. q.b. Clark Batchelder, Weeks, l.h.b. r.h.b. Lee Huguley, r.h.b. l.h.b. Frigard Ticknor, f.b. f.b. Johnson, Sutton...