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Says one dentist to another, if you are not a member, the charge of admission is one dollar. How can you expect the younger members to know anything, when the older ones act as exclusive as they do. Let the non-members and the independents get together and put up a man whose motto...
...with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. . . . But it is only proposed that I should recommend, not prescribe a day ... of praying. That is, I should indirectly assume to the United States an authority over religious exercises, which the Constitution has directly precluded them from. . . . Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the United States, and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents...
Minnesota sired the sire of the National Prohibition Act. Pleased indeed was he. Andrew John Volstead, last week to learn that President Hoover had reached over 47 other States and 99 other candidates to choose a Minnesotan and a good Volstead friend as his Dry Hope, under whom the President purposes to consolidate all Prohibition activities. The appointment of Gustav Aaron Youngquist. Minnesota's Attorney-General, to be U. S. Assistant Attorney-General in charge of Prohibition & Taxation, had hardly reached St. Paul before Sire Volstead's daughter, Mrs. Laura Volstead Lomen, hurried to Mr. Youngquist...
...tenure of office, the Prohibition & Taxation division of the Department of Justice grew from the smallest to the largest. President Hoover contemplates making it even larger by adding to its prosecution of dry cases the major job, now performed by the Treasury, of actual field enforcement of the Volstead Act. Lately the President set his friend, John L. McNab, to plotting out a system whereby this transfer and consolidation within the Department of Justice may be effected (TIME, Oct. 14). If and when such a plan becomes operative, Mr. Youngquist will be No. 1 U. S. Prohibitor, catching leggers with...
...flat and fertile Ontario and along the fish-flanked coast of Nova Scotia, voters were confronted with liquorish problems last week. Ontario's problem was whether or not to retain the Conservative Government of Premier George Howard Ferguson and in particular his beloved L. C. A. (Liquor Control Act) under which government liquor stores dole out their wares to the relief of the citizenry, to an annual profit of some $20,000,000 for the Provincial Treasury. Canadian Drys, Ontario Liberals and Progressives cried out against "Conservative wetness and corruption." Premier Ferguson pleaded chiefly, and successfully...