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...will sacrifice health needs to the mere possibility of using a distasteful tonic as beer, the end of the matter might well be the prohibition of the raising of grain, fruit. Simultaneously wise Mark Sullivan (political critic) suggested that the eastern wets were all wrong in advocating "beer and wine" because in the West beer is dreaded as much as anything. The reason for the dread is that beer is associated with saloons. For it was brewers like Pabst and AnheuserBusch who monopolized the saloon business, controlled the licenses, exerted through the saloon an influence on public affairs. As owners...
...should copie into intimate contacts with all: if he fails to do so, the fault is presumably his own. At Oxford there are casual but inevitably daily meetings over tea in the common--room and at dinner in Hallson all sorts of college athletic teams, college literary, debating and "wine" clubs. In each college is a resident "Head" and a corps of tutors whose function is not so much disciplinary as humanly helpful and inspiring. At work or at play, the college is an organism self-contained and efficient. Admittedly its horizon is narrow. A goodly proportion of undergraduates will...
Prohibition Administrator Andrews refused to permit orthodox Jewish organizations to import kosher wine from Palestine, ruling that the domestic supply is sufficient for religious use. Most significant of all, the Sen ate Judiciary Committee voted to conduct a public hearing. The first witness will be the same learned William Cabell Bruce. It is likely he will present the case for the "Canadian system" -sale and control of liquor by the government...
...housewife whose husband comes a bit unsteadily home point at him the finger of scorn, for if he has been drinking German wine he has done a patriotic duty and he may well smite his breast and proudly assert the fact." '"Formerly all true Germans were called upon to lay down their lives upon the field of battle, which they gladly did. Today I call upon every patriot to drink more wine...
...Coblenz alone 97 wine makers were declared to have mortgaged their crops. There a few desperate vintners met to consider the advisability of an appeal to President Coolidge. They were vexed when informed that the President could not suspend the U. S. prohibition laws to rescue the hard pressed German producer. They were outraged when William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson,' famed itinerant U. S. dry crusader, arrived at Berlin, last week and predicted: "Within 25 years Germany will have become so dry they will be putting the last steins in museums...