W.C.T.U.
Americanabbreviation
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McGirr quotes Frances Willard, the W.C.T.U. president, who sometimes described her political opponents as crude invaders.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 21, 2015
Small, sharp beagle-eyed President Ida B. Wise Smith and the W.C.T.U. are back on the warpath again with a whoop and a hatchet.
From Time Magazine Archive
What bothered Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, president of the W.C.T.U., was the sponsor who was getting the cooperation of Columbia University.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, President of the New York State W.C.T.U., laid the blame for U.S. war reverses squarely on U.S. intemperance.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The W.C.T.U. are doing good work, are they not?"
From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Harper, Ida Husted
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