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...knew just who he was. More of the collection appeared at the Waldorf-Astoria, in Chicago at Marshall Field's, at the Fair. Last week Collector Hammer bobbed up in the news with the announcement that he had two U. S. cooperage plants running full blast making beer kegs from Russian whiteoak staves. Sensing the beer keg shortage he had wangled out of Moscow last May a contract for the entire Russian output of the proper air-dried wood...
...because Herr Scheidemann recently wrote an article for the New York Times in which he asked: "Will the world tolerate in the centre of Europe the domination of political adventurers and criminals who trample under foot law. right, art and science, and play with incendiary torches around a powder keg? No! A thousand times no! It must be the task of the entire civilized world to paralyze these adventurers. That this may not exclude a bloody war is self evident!" This last sentence the Nazi Press called a treasonable incitement to other nations to make war on Germany. In Prague...
...order to provide the students with a means, at least, of expressing their opinion, the CRIMSON has instituted today a beer poll. The aims of this step are two-fold: it will furnish a safety valve for the harried spirits now longingly eyeing the keg; and it will demonstrate to the University the true condition of its youthful wards. The allots are so arranged as to cover all the important points of the problem, and even bring to light some of its more obscure phases. The results of the poll will not, in all probability, crown Lowell House with foam...
...made." And there is, too, in New Hampshire a wine of the country that used to be made from Russets, but now is ground from Baldwins. Boys at college distil it and call it applejack, but the farmers of New Hampshire keep it in a 50-gallon keg and call it cider. It does not burn like Rhum, it does not bite like Gin, it does not scrape like Scotch. It softens the rough edges, it burnishes the afterglow, and it catches a wind tossed echo of the music of the spheres. And above all it flows from a pitcher...
...Prohibition Law from her eight-year service as Assistant Attorney General. Last year Fruit Industries, on Mrs. Wille-brandt's advice, brought forth a liquid grape concentrate called Vine-Glo ("Just Pull the Bung") for urban vintners (TIME, Nov. 24). A client is supplied with a keg of nonalcoholic concentrate which Vine-Glo agents put down in his cellar. They dilute it, tend it for 60 days. By then it becomes wine of about 15% alcoholic content. Prohibition Director Woodcock explained again & again that he could prosecute only if an intent to violate the law was shown and intent...