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Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde prepared to leave Washington for a visit to St. Louis one day last week. Before he caught his train he announced that he would, on his return, start an investigation to determine the economic effects on farming which the manufacture of beer might bring. Aware that Secretary Hyde had just been closeted with President Hoover, newshawks who have fancied they smelt the beer idea brewing in the White House for the past fortnight (TIME, Sept. 28) rushed to find out if the President had suggested the Hyde investigation. No. said Secretary Hyde, he just...
...exhibiting a big-toothed grin somewhat like his father's. In sidetracked Pullmans at Windsor. Legionaries were pictured leaning out of windows with bottles of foaming brew in their hands and pointing to what they had scrawled along the car's side: WE WANT BEER. That had become the rallying cry for a large element in the convention after President Hoover had made a flying trip to Detroit to shame the Legion out of asking for immediate payment in full of its adjusted service certificates (TIME, Sept. 28). At Olympia Arena the resolutions committee placed before...
This action was greeted with the same shout which had followed President Hoover's grave anti-Bonus address: "We want beer. We want beer. WE WANT BEER...
...name of Frances Elizabeth Willard, longtime (1879-98) president of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, is held dear by all teetotalers. She dried up Evanston, Ill. so thoroughly that to this day you have to drive several miles west of town to a row of beer-saloons or push south into adjacent Chicago to get a drink. From 1859 to 1874 Miss Willard spent most of her time in Evanston, first as a student at Northwestern Female College (now part of Northwestern University), later on the faculty of Evanston College for Ladies (then as now also part...
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