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Prohibitionist, was defeated by Franklin D. Roosevelt, a reluctant anti-Prohibitionist; a year later, the country repealed the Eighteenth Amendment.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

He is an ardent Prohibitionist for medical and scientific reasons.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since 1880, Mesdames Hunter, Orwig, Woods and Work have filled two columns in The Prohibitionist, of which Laura A. Berry is one of the editors.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady