Prohibition party
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As Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker and others jockey to run against Donald Trump, they may also want to be wary of a dark, sober horse competing for the White House: a Prohibition party candidate.
From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2018
The Prohibition party got its wish of preventing the sale and production of alcohol in 1919, but prohibition was repealed in 1933, and there seems little hope of it returning.
From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2018
The earliest was August 26, 1887, when the New York Times reported a speech by Fred Wheeler at a Prohibition party convention.
From Time • Feb. 20, 2016
The picture offers one spiffy spoof of the '205, a Prohibition party with hoofing on the pool table, dunking in the fish pond and a charge at the punch bowl with drawn sabers.
From Time Magazine Archive
The oldest of these is the Prohibition party, organized in 1872 to promote the movement for the abolition of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors.
From Government in the United States National, State and Local by Garner, James Wilford
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