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...become unbearable. "There is only one commodity under God's high heaven which is free of tax at this time, and sells at reasonable prices, a commodity that took twelve years of scientific effort and experiment in studying the fine points of production. Gentlemen, 1 refer to CORN LIQUOR. And now, as a crowning infamy, our politicians want to repeal the 18th amendment and then place an enormous and confiscatory tax on liquor, thus bringing about our complete enslavement. "The time for action is here when our government attempts to step in and forbid the manufacture and sale, unless...
...Rockefeller into their fold as a convert and a damaging loss to the opposition, Drys damned him for a turncoat. "Unfortunately for your conception and interpretation you live in a stupefying, benumbing atmosphere of New York,"* wrote one-time Congressional Dry-leader William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw from the corn liquor country of Georgia. "Dr. Butler is an unsafe mentor for a high class, unsophisticated Christian like...
...resolution by Missouri's Shannon to investigate "Government competition with private enterprise" in the form of sales of merchandise at Army posts and elsewhere; viewed as exhibits a pair of women's pink silk pyjamas purchased at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. and an array of gin, rum. corn and rye flavoring extracts bought at a Government store in Washington...
...through a jungle with a machete. . . . His companions sickened and faced starvation. In spite of the fact that his feet were rotting from the humidity he walked 18 miles until he found some Indians with whom he was able to barter cloth, fish hooks and soap for some beans, corn and mandioca root to feed his party...
...Ranch at Pomona one afternoon last week. At the reins was Captain William Banning, pioneer stage driver. Beside him on the box was grinning Will Rogers. Inside the coach, holding tight, sat California's cowboy-booted Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. and Cereal Manufacturer Will Keith Kellogg (corn flakes), owner of the ranch. Bands played, a crowd of actors, actresses, ranchers and California citizens great & small cheered as Mr. Kellogg climbed down from the coach and up on a platform to present his ranch to the University of California...