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While the Federal Government was last week drafting a drastic industrial code to control distilleries until such time as Congress acts on the problem (see p. 53), State governments throughout the land were fussing and fiddling with their own regulations for local sale and consumption. Ten have already decided when & why & how drinks may be served (see box). Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri and Massachusetts had barely a week left before Repeal to make up their minds what...
About the only distiller who found more good than bad in the code last week was Seton Porter. Freezing the total U. S. distilling capacity at the present figure would assure National Distillers of its dominant position...
...York Stock Exchange last week. First hint had come when a virtual embargo was clamped on liquor imports. It was learned that President Roosevelt had listened sympathetically to a Brain Trust idea of forming a government corporation to handle the entire wholesale liquor business. When the distillers submitted a code of fair competition, they saw it thrown in the wastebasket. Last week they were asked to accept a code, drawn by a special Roosevelt committee, which imposed rigid Federal control on the whole liquor business until Congress could tackle the subject. Provisions...
...their horses. Their chief objection was to the absolute power of F. A. C. A. Particularly obnoxious was the freezing of capacity at the Dec. 5 figure. Nearly every company was either building or rebuilding plants which would not be completed by that date. These unfinished plants the code simply scrapped. On this point, however, the distillers had hopes of softening the Government's views...
...fact that Prohibition was ridden out of the Constitution on the principle of returning liquor to the states. Yet here was a Democratic Administration doing its utmost to retain complete control in Washington. Observers saw unmistakable signs of Brain Trusting, with distillers given the choice of accepting an arbitrary code or facing the threat of a government sales corporation. No theory of social expediency was advanced in support of Federal liquor control, and observers concluded that it was merely another manifestation of the Brain Trust's passion for centralization. Die-hard Drys were more pleased than they had been...