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...because the liquor market is too wide open. Chesapeake Bay shipping provides wealthy Vets with expensive foreign goods. As U. S. attorney Mr. Woodcock used to leave his apartment on Charles Street every evening at 10 o'clock, walk to the corner drug store, toss down a milk shake, Coca Cola or lime phosphate. Once he set Baltimore tongues to wild wagging by escorting Mrs. Willebrandt to the opera. He failed to convict John Philip Hill, flagrantly Wet onetime Congressman, for public home-brewing in Baltimore...
First Transfer Change: A redistricting of enforcement areas from 27 to 12, to correspond with the Federal judicial districts, with a consequent shake-up and shift of local Dry administrators...
...Fourth of July would have been a very sad Fourth indeed. Fireworks men mourn the time when a piece of punk in the outfield of a baseball park would bring to life a fire portrait of "Theodore Roosevelt, Our President" and cause great huzzahs to shake the bleachers...
...present welter of things, "Krish-naji sees something saner and finer emerging and a rather soul-sick intelligentsia turn to the astonishing and uncanny vitality of this stripling-scholar, not for bromidic guesswork, but for a bracing challenge to women and men to shake off ''bribe of Heaven and threat of Hell " and stand on their own feet...
...reorganization will result in a shake down of inflated assets and liabilities, in a smaller, more compact pyramid. "Besco" will yield its supremacy to a new company. Dominion Steel & Coal Corp., which will absorb some of the old companies, control others. Its shares will probably be listed on the New York Stock Exchange where "Besco" has been an unpopular ''dog," selling below $5 a share...