Sentence examples for movement prohibition from inspiring English sources

Although she brought much publicity to the temperance movement, prohibition wasn't enacted until 1919, eight years after her death.

Night drive prohibition for lorries.

From the Washingtonian movement to Prohibition, there have been many attempts to sober up the workforce.

Booth's only political involvement was to throw the weight of the Salvation Army behind the movement for prohibition and against the later movement for repeal.

The first few chapters address some of the political movement behind Prohibition and how it led to a string of wood alcohol poisoning cases.

Minnick is also intrigued by the post-Prohibition movement to ban alcohol ads, in which female members of the Women's Association of Allied Beverage Industries battled the ad-banning activists.

The Prohibition movement was also partly a good-government movement, and the saloons it targeted were associated not only with disorderly drunkenness but with big-city corruption — saloons were where the local political bosses held court, doing private favors with public money.

It struck us that the new prohibition movement (see the W.C.T.U.'s newspaper campaign telling us that to refuse a cocktail is mark of good judgement), must derive a certain impetus from people sitting around in comfortable, modern restaurants allowing themselves to be airconditioned.

The nation's dependence on the alcohol tax created a vexing problem for the leaders of the Prohibition movement.

He also lent his support to the Prohibition movement, to the development of the Sunday school, and to the New School Presbyterians.

During the 1920s she also was at the forefront of opposition to the growing movement to repeal Prohibition, serving for more than 10 years as president of the Woman's National Committee for Law Enforcement.