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Prohibitionist, was defeated by Franklin D. Roosevelt, a reluctant anti-Prohibitionist; a year later, the country repealed the Eighteenth Amendment.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

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

Rev. Robert Pierce Shuler, rampant Prohibitionist running as an independent, failed to alter the McAdoo trend.

From Time Magazine Archive

The man who has brains enough to make money and keep it usually has too much sense to be a Prohibitionist.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper