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Many a Bowery "smoke joint" was closed last week by the local Prohibition Administrator, Major Maurice Campbell; many another closed through fear. Thirty purveyors of cheap alcohol were held under $2,500 bail for arraignment before a Federal grand jury. In almost every case, the alcohol in evidence was of the type used to keep automobile radiators from freezing. Despite the reassuring names of some "smoke" salesmen (Mike Whiskey, Frank Barri), almost all 30 were dealing in liquid death...
Representative Louis F. McFadden, chairman of the House Committee on Banking & Currency, who fears all that he does not understand. "Endeavoring to keep the United States and its Federal Reserve system out of involvement in the reparation payments," he last week introduced a joint resolution into Congress: that the purchase of German Reparations bonds be prohibited to national banks, Federal Reserve Banks, and members of the Federal Reserve Bank system...
Died. John Hathaway ("Jack") Skinner, 60, vice president of the San Francisco Bank of Italy, long its joint manager with now-retired Amadeo Peter Giannini; after a two-month illness; at San Francisco...
...first joint eruption of Henry Louis Mencken and George Jean Nathan...
...Stream, 24 years younger, differs from its predecessor in that it opposes conservation measures which may be impracticable, based only on sentiment. Founders John P. Burkhard and Henry Wellington Wack sold it in. 1906 to Eltinge F. Warner, chain magazine publisher. Editor Ray Holland continues in charge of the joint publication, which begins with the August issue. Approximate circulation : Forest and Stream, 90,000; Field & Stream...