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...Senator may be expelled for revealing the proceedings of an executive session. Senator Bingham thought one Senator had been. He was wrong. In 1844, Senator Benjamin Tappan of Ohio, after deep apologies, was forgiven for having divulged confidential information to newspapers. It has long been the custom of the Senate tacitly to permit a Senator to tell how he himself voted in secret session. Thus Senator Overman of North Carolina jubilantly boasts he voted against Mr. Woodlock...
...pointed out that if prohibition 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...
...When the L-4 was cruising in Irish waters in Wartime, something went wrong with the ballast and down she went. Lieutenant Commander Lewis Hancock brought her to the surface, lived a few years, died last fall with the Shenandoah...
Adult education in the U. S. has been chiefly bread-and-buttery. And "if our friendly critics from other lands and other types of civilization are right (and whether they are right or wrong they are at any rate unanimous), we as a people are very much better at earning a living than we are at living...
...McCormick entered a swampy town at the foot of Lake Michigan. It had no railroad, no canal; only a river, flowing the wrong way. But it was busy and McCormick saw that it was good. After two minutes' talk, Chicago's first mayor, William B. Ogden, bought a half partnership and McCormick proceeded to build his factory. They sold $50,000 worth of reapers for the next harvest...