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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

Table of Contents

Overview
The Wimberly Affair
The Beer Apartment Raid
Source Page

Sources

Primary Sources

Published Works

1930 Cornhusker Editorial Staff. Cornhusker Lincoln, Nebraska: Nebraska University Press, 1930.68.

"Arrested Barb Husker Stormy Petrel." The Omaha Bee-News. Omaha, Nebraska: February 1932.

"Burnett States Officials Frown on Use of Liquor." The Daily Nebraskan. Lincoln, Nebraska: February 1932.

"Crete Residents Visit Thompson on Hokuf Behalf." The Daily Nebraskan. Lincoln, Nebraska: April 1931.

"The Daily Nebraskan Scoffs at Rum Raid." The Omaha World-Herald. Omaha, Nebraska: February 1932.

"Drys Raid University Dance on Campus." The Omaha Bee-News. Omaha, Nebraska: February 1932.

"Find Liquor in Room University Coliseum." The Lincoln Evening Journal. Lincoln, Nebraska: February 1932.

"Grand Jury to Hear of N. U. Liquor Raid." The Omaha World-Herald. Omaha, Nebraska: February 1932.

"Grand Jury to Probe Uni Rum Raid." The Omaha Bee-News. Omaha, Nebraska: February 1932.

"Hokuf Named to Grid Hall." The Lincoln Star. Lincoln, Nebraska: June 1980.

"Lowry Wimberly Dies." The Lincoln Star. Lincoln, Nebraska: July 1959.

"Mountains out of Molehills." The Daily Nebraskan. Lincoln, Nebraska: February 1932.

"N. U. Students Caught in Raid." The Omaha Bee-News. Omaha, Nebraska: March 1931.

"Nab Ex-Student in Liquor Raid at N. U. Party." The Omaha World-Herald. Omaha, Nebraska: February 1932.

"Nebraska Ends Hopes of Wets." The Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California: January 1919.

"Petitions Ask Uni. Teachers Be Reinstated." The Lincoln Star. Lincoln, Nebraska: February 1932.

"Question Steve Hokuf in 'U.' Beer Flat Raid." The Omaha Bee-News. Omaha, Nebraska: March 1931.

"Steve Hokuf Sacrificed-But Why." Crete News. Crete, Nebraska: April 1931.

"Students Vote Against Prohibition 984 to 86." The Daily Nebraskan. Lincoln, Nebraska: November 1944.

"Suspend 2 Professors in Dry Raid." The Omaha Bee-News. Omaha, Nebraska: February 1932.

. "Suspend Six Uni Students." The Lincoln Star. Lincoln, Nebraska: March 1931.

"Suspension Order for 5 Nebraska Students in Raid." The Omaha World-Herald. Omaha, Nebraska: March 1931.

"Teachers Deny Knowledge of Seized Liquor." The Lincoln Star. Lincoln, Nebraska: February 1932.

"This Prohibition Question." The Daily Nebraskan. Lincoln, Nebraska: September 1932.

"Two Suspended Students Fined." The Lincoln Star. Lincoln, Nebraska: March 1931.

"Two Teachers Taken in Raid Are Suspended." The Lincoln Star. Lincoln, Nebraska: February 1932.

"U. Suspends Steve Hokuf, 5 Others." The Omaha Bee-News. Omaha, Nebraska: March 1931.

von Holtzendorff, Howard. "'Three Gun' Wilson Says University One of Best Institutions in America; Nebraska Group Not Drunken Sots." The Daily Nebraskan. Lincoln, Nebraska: April 1932.

"Wimberly Defended by Daily Nebraskan." The Omaha World-Herald. Omaha, Nebraska: February 1932.

"Wimberly Explains Finding N. U. Liquor." The Omaha World-Herald. Omaha, Nebraska: February 1932.

"Wimberly to Lose Classes for Time." The Omaha World-Herald. Omaha, Nebraska: February 1932.

J.H.B. "Witness for the Defense." The Daily Nebraskan. Lincoln, Nebraska: September 1932.

Sandahl, Cliff F. "Open Fight to Get Hokuf Back at Uni." The Omaha Bee-News. Omaha, Nebraska: March 1931.

Unpublished Works

Dales, James S. Sr., Secretary. Minutes of the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. unpublished, February-March 1932. 181, 282, 284.

Secondary Sources

Published Works

Knoll, Robert E. Prairie University. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press and the Alumni Association of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1995. 85-86.

Unpublished Works

Shipman, Timothy L. Nebraska Goes Wet: The Repeal of Prohibition 1933-34. Masters Thesis-University of Nebraska at Omaha. unpublished, 1987.

Watson, Julia Permelia. The Evolution of the Temperance Movement in Nebraska. Thesis. unpublished, 1925.