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...Washington quickly became choked with rumors and reports as to what its conclusions would be. Most Washington correspondents agreed that the Commission, though disappointed in Prohibition, would not favor repeal of the 18th Amendment but would possibly recommend to President Hoover some modification of the Volstead Act to legalize beer and wine...
...homicide only to be freed . by Tammany magistrates. Eight times, too, he beat the law on robbery charges. After the war the U. S. kept him in Leavenworth penitentiary for a year for deserting the army and stealing while in it. Last summer he fled to Europe after a beer murder, was barred out of England, France and Germany as an undesirable alien (TIME, Sept. 8). He was returned to Philadelphia, his birthplace 33 years ago, on a freighter carrying 4,500 canaries, arrested for vagrancy, hustled out of town...
...hospital; Danny Stanton, jailed because his gun was said to prove ballistically that he had shot swart Jack Zuta; Caponeman Jack Guzick, first arrested by Federal agents for income-tax evasion; James (''Fur") Sammons, robber, killer, ex-convict; Edward ("Spike") O'Donnell, Capone beer salesman; ("Dago") Lawrence Mangano, west side gambling-house keeper; George ("Red") Barker and William ("Three-fingered Jack") White, both agents of the coal teamsters union (nonA...
Curtis Dwight Wilbur, onetime (1024-29) Secretary of the Navy, walked into a drug store at Arbuckle, Calif., gave a clerk 10¢ for a stein of root beer which he had drunk in 1920 and had not paid...
...Beer & Skittles?...