THE FLYING SQUADRON OF AMERICA FOR NATIONAL PROHIBITION

Pinback button promoting Prohibition, 1914-1915. 5/8" cello in excellent condition with a Whitehead & Hoag Co. backpaper. The Flying Squadron was an organization that staged a nationwide campaign promoting Prohibition, and its members spoke in every state capital in the country. Founded by Indiana Governor J. Frank Hanly, who would become the Prohibition Party's presidential nominee in 1916.