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Good old General von Ludendorff addressed the Kommers Beer Festival of the Academic Association of Munich Turners (Gymnasts) at the Pan-German Turners' Congress...
When he has seen them all, the Scholar emerges into Broadway and plods desperately to the adjacent saloon. Bending wearily over his beer for hours he thinks the whole thing through...
...anonymous prohibition agent was approached by a group of anonymous bootlegging brewers. They offered him $360,000 a week if he would turn his back while they flooded the cities of the Central Atlantic states with beer from an anonymous "brewery city." He cunningly fed the hopes of the bootleggers. He accepted $25,000 in advance bribes, a fur overcoat and an automobile of anonymous make (specifically not a Rolls-Royce). He allowed himself to be taken on a three-day party to Atlantic City and elsewhere while the bootleggers recklessly dissipated "grands" ($1,000 bills). He had them show...
Michigan is a state that has voted dry by substantial majorities several times since 1916. Previous to that it was rapidly becoming dry by local option. Senator Couzens virtually threw his gauntlet in the face of this sentiment by declaring that 5% beer was neither worse nor more intoxicating than tea or coffee...
...That beer of from 21/2 to 5% alcoholic content is not intoxicating...