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...more vehemently. Their charges: 1) Wet funds were financing the pool; 2) more ballots had been sent to men than to women; 3) by some inexplicable divination on the part of the poll managers, Wet families had received many ballots, Dry families none. Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals advised a New Jersey audience to vote as many times as they could in the poll, then rather lamely withdrew the advice when he found a newsgatherer had overheard him. In the Senate, Washington's Senator Jones, author of the "Five...
...publicity bureau of Funk & Wagnalls, publishers of the Literary Digest, let it be known that Dr. Woods was not only the son of a Methodist minister but an ardent personal Dry, a fact to which his friends in New York and Washington who had vainly offered him drinks readily attested...
Professional Prohibitors who last week put their views before the House committee were: Dr. Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League, Edwin Courtland Dinwiddie of the National Temperance Bureau, Elbert Deets Pickett of the Methodist Episcopal Church Board of Prohibition, Temperance & Public Morals, Canon William Sheafe Chase of the International Reform Federation, and Eugene L. Crawford of the Board of Temperance and Social Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. These witnesses were spared the ordeal of direct testimony and cross-examination by Wet committee members, when Chairman Graham, to save time, adjourned the hearing and permitted the witnesses...
Died. Bishop Kogoro Uzaki, 60, scholar, editor, Bishop of Japan Methodist Church (founded 1907; 25,000 members), graduate of Vanderbilt University, D. D. Emory University; of apoplexy; in Tokyo...
...working in Washington to influence legislation. These lobbies have been largely responsible for assembling witnesses and stage-managing the House Judiciary Committee hearings. The first Senate Lobby Committee witness will be Massachusetts' bearded Congressman George Holden Tinkham who has a mass of complaints to file against the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals...