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...favor of a modification of the Volstead Act to permit the sale of beer and wine because: 1) the effect of prohibition has been to put an end to scientific temperance teaching; 2) it has resulted in increased drinking among young people; 3) it has discouraged the consumption of wine and beer and increased the demand for distilled liquors, which today are mostly poisonous; 4) it has brought about disrespect for all laws; 5) it is class legislation discriminating in favor of the rich; 6) it has increased intemperance...
...money now spent in a futile attempt at enforcement were added to the revenue we might have from beer and wine, and one-tenth of this sum were spent to educate the people in scientific temperance, it would be more effective toward the physical and moral well-being of our people...
...blurring of communication; and two nights running, ships in distress on the storm-tossed Atlantic silenced all stations with their stark, tragic S.O.S.† The European program was flashed from stations in England, France, Germany, Austria and Spain. In Berlin, portly opera singers were obliged to loiter over their beer all night or scramble out of bed long before dawn to warble into the microphone songs that were to be heard in the U. S. between 11 and midnight. Mme. Clara Novello-Davies, in Manhattan, and her son, Composer Ivan Novello, in London, simultaneously attempted to lead radio fanatics...
Ensconced at a table in Jakey Wirth's swell beer saloon they were partaking of hohn kukken and tongue blood pudding...
Score, Harvard 1929 26, Worcester Academy 19. Goals from floor. Burns 3, Thackaberry 2, Robinson, O'Connell, Bailey, Beer 3, Kelley 2, Whalen, McCarthy. Goals from fouls, Burns 3, Thackaberry 2, Ketchum, McCarty 4, Whalen. Referee, Aldrich, Timer, Smith. Time of quarters, 10 minutes...