Word: wheeler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nowadays the country is facing the "enforcement crisis" and last week the Anti-Saloon League meeting in Chicago called its biennial convention by that name. It was a great meeting. To it came Bishop Thomas Nicholson, President of the League; Francis Scott McBride, General Superintendent; Wayne B. Wheeler, its Washington representative; William H. Anderson, former superintendent of the New York State branch; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C. Andrews (in charge of Prohibition); Andrew Volstead, onetime Congressman; Roy Asa Haynes, Prohibition Commissary; Senator Sheppard of Texas, who introduced the 18th Amendment in the Senate...
...Hunt '93, our business manager, was at the bottom of it. He arranged with Wheeler, who then ran a printing press at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Linden Street, for the use of his press. Mac and Ed (McCarter and Kneeland, for 33 years in charge of printing the CRIMSON) were there on the job to set type...
...Winsor and Ladd would get a bunch of copy written, they would wrap it around a stone and drop it over the bleachers to one of the young bicyclists waiting below, and away it would go across the Yard and into the waiting hands of Mac and Ed at Wheeler...
Young Bob LaFollette, with his father's platform and his father's organization, was picked as the logical winner. On his behalf Senator Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite of Minnesota, and Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Progressive Democrat of Montana, came campaigning into the state...
...Wayne B. Wheeler, legislative representative (lobbyist) and counsel for the Anti-Saloon League has on occasion debated prohibition with Mr. Thomas on a public platform. Last week he issued a critique of Mr. Thomas' 63rd play...