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UNL and the Dry Spell: Student Attitudes Toward Prohibition, 1931-1932

Project Editor: Jeffrey Miller, History 470: Digital History, Spring 2008

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Overview
The Wimberly Affair
The Beer Apartment Raid
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Norman E. Eliason

Norman E. Eliason was an instructor in english at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He joined the faculty in 1929. Eliason was suspended from March through August of 1932 for involvement in a rum raid at a University dance he, his wife and fellow english professor Lowry C. Wimberly were chaperoning. Eliason left the University shortly after the suspension (Knoll, 85-86).

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