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...envisage Repeal as possible before the 73d Congress, but declared "constructive Wet activity'' might achieve much in the 72nd Congress, "when we will have at least 140 repealist votes to say nothing of the men . . . who are now wavering. . . . We can safely tell our people that light wines & beer are not far in the offing . . . especially if Mr. Hoover's commission indicates that the present form of Prohibition is unsuccessful.'' To his support came Republican Congressman James Montgomery Beck of Pennsylvania, declaring: "The 72nd Congress, which in my opinion will be more closely divided on the Wet & Dry issue than...
...Commission. With rumors rampant that it would recommend light wines & beer, that it would advise calling a Constitutional convention for considering Repeal, and above all that it was hastening its deliberations so as to present a report to the opening session of Congress on Dec. 1, the Wickersham Commission, object of concern to both Chairman Fess and Leader Linthicum. last week surprised Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock by summoning him. After hearing what he had to say, the Commission abruptly adjourned for ten days. This unexpected action forthwith was explained as an Administration measure to prevent Prohibition debate...
...attributed to Director Shumlin. As the fleshy manufacturer, bluffing his way through a merger, Siegfried Rumann is convincingly brutal. He looks and performs not unlike Emil Jannings. He was an officer in the German army during the War, was wounded, acted in The Channel Road, has sung in Manhattan beer halls for a living. The stenographer is played by Hortense Alden (Lysistrata), an ingratiating person with an attractive, chirrupy voice. Eugenie Leontovich, a beautiful lady who came to the U. S. from Russia to dance, turns in an extraordinary piece of acting as the danseuse, making instantly credible a swift...
...Enforcement Commission-see p. 20) nearing the close of its extensive labors, examined two star witnesses: Sir Arthur Keysall Yapp, Deputy President of the British Y. M. C. A., declared that, "since the War the trend in drinking by British youth has been toward moderation . . . toward beer." Sir Arthur Balfour* steel tycoon of Sheffield, England, testified: "I have visited the United States about 40 times. ... I have made several recent visits of from two to three months each. ... A visit to the United States today is almost a nuisance...
President Homer LeRoy Shantz of the University of Arizona (Tucson) found lager beer bottles in the walls of his home, sent them to the Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society Museum. Helen Lee Eames, debutante stepdaughter of Henry Latham Doherty, potent oil-utility tycoon, ordered twelve Ford sport cabriolets which she will give to friends after painting silhouets on the cars "to personalize the owner's individuality." First car she embellished with horses & hounds, sent to sporting King Alfonso XIII of Spain who, last year, helped rescue a school friend of Miss Eames after she had suffered an equestrian mishap...