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  • The Anti-Saloon League, now known as the American Council on Addiction and Alcohol Problems, is an organization of the temperance movement in the United...
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    A Western saloon is a kind of bar particular to the Old West. Saloons served customers such as fur trappers, cowboys, soldiers, lumberjacks, businessmen...
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    Woman's Christian Temperance Union. After 1900, it was coordinated by the Anti-Saloon League. Opposition from the beer industry mobilized "wet" supporters...
    130 KB (14,222 words) - 18:54, 3 September 2024
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    The last wave of temperance in the United States saw the rise of the Anti-Saloon League (ASL), which successfully pushed for National Prohibition from...
    28 KB (3,274 words) - 01:33, 29 March 2024
  • The New York Anti-Saloon League was an American organization that worked toward the prohibition of alcohol and the closing of saloons. Located at 156 Fifth...
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  • temperance activist who served as Superintendent of the Massachusetts Anti-Saloon League from 1924 to 1928. He later worked as a stock broker and was convicted...
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    January 1919) which established the prohibition of alcoholic drinks. The Anti-Saloon League's Wayne Wheeler conceived and drafted the bill, which was named...
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    Wayne Wheeler (category Anti-Saloon League)
    September 5, 1927) was an American attorney and longtime leader of the Anti-Saloon League. The leading advocate of the prohibitionist movement in the late...
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    a progressive amendment. Founded in 1893 in Saratoga, New York, the Anti-Saloon League (ASL) started in 1906 a campaign to ban the sale of alcohol at...
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    the highly effective Anti-Saloon League. Timberlake (1963) argues the dries sought to break the liquor trust, weaken the saloon base of big-city machines...
    191 KB (24,708 words) - 01:13, 9 September 2024
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    elected Harvey Doolittle Colvin as mayor of Chicago by a wide margin. The Anti-Saloon League was an organization that began in Ohio in 1893. Reacting to urban...
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  • nondrinker who had contributed between $350,000 and $700,000 to the Anti-Saloon League, announced his support for repeal because of the widespread problems...
    25 KB (3,020 words) - 12:48, 23 November 2023
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    strict laws prohibiting sales of alcohol and for being the home of the Anti-Saloon League, one of the driving forces behind Prohibition at the beginning...
    33 KB (2,788 words) - 18:17, 1 September 2024
  • Western Australian, 1950 American Mafia American Temperance Society Anti-Saloon League Association Against the Prohibition Amendment Bathtub gin Blaine...
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  • Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), the National Prohibition Party, the Anti-Saloon League, and others, continued to support temperance and prohibition legislation...
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    music at Otterbein College. In 1909, he donated the family home to the Anti-Saloon League, which had recently moved its headquarters to Westerville. The...
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  • Francis Scott McBride (category Anti-Saloon League)
    28, 1872 – April 23, 1955) was a Presbyterian minister active in the Anti-Saloon League. He featured on the cover of Time magazine on 3 June 1929. McBride...
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  • politicians is usually attributed to Wayne Wheeler, the de facto leader of the Anti-Saloon League. Under his mentorship, a number of skilled practitioners of pressure...
    7 KB (787 words) - 13:59, 25 March 2024
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    Prohibition (redirect from Anti alcohol)
    Prohibition Party were major players until the 20th century, when the Anti-Saloon League emerged as the movement's leader. By 1913, 9 states had statewide...
    56 KB (6,431 words) - 16:05, 19 August 2024
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    D. C. Stephenson (category American anti-communists)
    nomination. Part of his election loss was due to opposition from the Anti-Saloon League, which would later cause him to change his party affiliation from...
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