Word: andersons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Planner Anderson. Most constructive was Commissioner Anderson, big. blond bachelor, able Richmond lawyer, smart Republican politician, long-time Dry. Last summer Mr. Anderson went to Europe, studied first-hand the Bratt system of liquor-control in Sweden, gathered other material on which to devise a liquor-selling system for the U. S. The ''Anderson Plan" was a highlight of the separate opinions which won the endorsement of five other Commissioners...
Profits in excess of the dividend rate and a 2% amortization reserve would revert from the State corporation to the State and from the National Corporation to the U. S. This money would go into a special fund. With a flash of hope or irony Commissioner Anderson suggested that these funds be "used for educational purposes, especially as to the evils resulting from the use of alcoholic beverages and for the eradication of those conditions which cause excessive drinking...
Commissioner Anderson argued that his system would: eliminate the private profit from illicit liquor traffic, satisfy local public opinion, avert the state of nullification into which Prohibition is now drifting. The Government would enlist the power of economic law to beat the bootlegger. He argued that the U. S., in the Federal Reserve System and the Interstate Commerce Commission, has already applied to Money and Transportation the principle he now proposed for Liquor...
Sharp Loesch. Flaying "those murderers and arch criminals" who operate the bootleg business, Commissioner Loesch, Chicago's famed old crime investigator, declared: "Effective national enforcement of the 18th Amendment in its present form is unattainable; therefore steps should be taken immediately to revise the Amendment." He favored the Anderson plan...
Lorenzo E. Anderson & Co. was formed in St. Louis in 1913 as a brokerage house. In 1927 it was admitted to the New York Stock Exchange. Last week the firm was suspended from the Exchange, marking the first such action of the year, the eighth since the Bear Market began. Partner Arthur C. Hilmer, as president of St. Louis Stock Exchange, had to order his firm suspended from that market as well. One of the house's biggest troubles is said to have been caused by its financing the new St. Louis Arena...