PROHIBITION: Dry Wave

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With Mr. Hoover in the White House, eminent Drys felt last week that a real groundswell of Dryness was at last in motion. Said F. Scott McBride, general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League: "This is the greatest opportunity that Prohibition has ever had." In commemoration of the event, the U.S. Drys, Consolidated—representatives of 31 Dry organizations—massed at the White House and presented Mr. Hoover with an embossed, vellum-bound volume containing their felicitations on his good fortune, signed by their organizations and all prominent Prohibitors. As a further vote...

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