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Prompted by the Governor, the New York Legislature a fortnight ago passed a resolution urging Congress to liberalize the Volstead law so as to legalize the manufacture and sale of light wines and beer. Democratic leaders in Washington last week advised Mr. Smith to reserve his plea for the 68th Congress rather than present it to the 67th. The Governor agreed...
Arthur Brisbane (Hearst editor) made the following comment on George Washington: "In three months his beer bill was $170, French red wine $105, porter $45. He spent only five shillings for liquors-wise Father of His Country. If everybody had done the same ever since, there would be no drink problem in the United States...
...government's collection of criminal curios about $100,000 in bogus bank notes. Although a cryptic secrecy veiled the details of the Federal activity, it is said that over 1,000 persons will be arrested for connection with the counterfeiters. Millions of revenue stamps, postage stamps, whisky, beer and champagne labels, bonded liquor seals, and doctor's prescription blanks were also discovered. Secret Service men say that their prisoners have gulled the trusting public for over $1,000,000 in crooked currency and over $10,000,000 in spurious stamps, labels and seals in the past year...
...short but full description of a happy State in this World"; and then he goes on, advancing more advios: "Whatever he eats that is solid, make him chew it well. We English are often from whence follow Indigestion and other great inconveniences. . . His Drink should be only Small Beer. . . . Let his Bed be hard, rather than Quilts and Feathers". The last suggestion that he makes is the only one with which the author of "How not to Catch Cold", a recent article in the Literary Digest, agrees-to the effect that "he should be much in the open...
...Beer: Fair rewards...