prohibitionist

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Prohibitionist papers provided clues along with old ads for ‘new and novel entertainment: talking motion pictures.”

From Washington Times • Mar. 23, 2018

In the meantime, many of the Prohibitionist leaders expressed an earnest—and characteristically Progressive—desire to help those who seemed, to them, insufficiently progressed.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 21, 2015

In 1932, Hoover, the reluctant Prohibitionist, was defeated by Franklin D. Roosevelt, a reluctant anti-Prohibitionist; a year later, the country repealed the Eighteenth Amendment.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 21, 2015

Rollin Kirby wrote editorials when he felt like it, besides drawing his long-chinned Prohibitionist, his side-whiskered, potbellied G. O. Partisan and many another famed character.

From Time Magazine Archive

A man has just as much right to declare himself a socialist as he has to call himself a Seventh Day Adventist or a Prohibitionist, or a Perpetual Motionist.

From The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice by Leacock, Stephen