Word: wheelerism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anti-Saloon League. Senator Reed called Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel and "legislative representative" of the Anti-Saloon League. The pretext for calling him was that he had sent the committee information that Wet interests had contributed to Mr. Vare's campaign but the real reason was that Senator Reed has been eager to dig into the affairs of the Anti-Saloon League. During an interval in the hearings, Mr. Wheeler looking rather worn, and wearing a too-large collar approached Mr. Reed...
...Those wet bills have no more chance than a crippled grasshopper in a pen of turkeys."?Wayne B. Wheeler...
...Senator Wheeler, who led the attack on Mr. Daugherty when the latter was Attorney General, merely said...
...great scene of the hearing did not take place, however. Wayne B. Wheeler, counsel for the Anti-Saloon League, did not take the stand, and Senator James A. Reed, the one Wet inquisitor, did not have a chance to ask him the embarrassing question which the Wets had anticipated...
...Wheeler summed up for the Drys as did Colonel Julian Codman for the Wets, and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C. Andrews in charge of prohibition wound up with a final appearance (his fourth) and denied that he was in favor of modifying the prohibition law except to put more teeth...