Word: bratt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since Dr. Bratt holds that food counteracts the effects of alcohol, Swedish restaurants may dispense liquor with meals after 12 noon, but not more than 2½ ounces to a patron before 3 p.m. Afterwards, it becomes possible by ordering an indefinite succession of meals, to tope an indefinite amount...
...some the achievement of Smart Ivan Bratt will seem inadequate; and it was with their view well in mind that he resigned as Sweden's "Liquor Tsar" last week. A Parliamentary report on the workings of the Bratt System is being prepared, prior to a national liquor plebiscite, and Dr. Bratt wants to be free to assist and testify before the investigators...
...thousand pages could one print the speeches and tracts which Dr. Bratt has poured forth during the past decade and a half, striving always to keep Sweden in the middle road of individual liquor control. The last straw vote of Swedish prohibition societies (in 1922) showed that the 1,800,000 Swedes who wanted total prohibition in 1909 have dwindled to 889,000; while the cohorts of Brattism have swelled from 20.000 to 924,000. Thus the fight is just beginning...
...Ivan Bratt will escape being "out of a job" during the liquor investigation by becoming Director of the Paris Office of the great Swedish ball bearing firm called S. K. F. (which controls the French ball bearing industry). Thus Dr. Bratt will receive the large salary which he frankly admits that he now needs, to put his children through college. A realist to the last, he will earn with S. K. F. what he has refused to earn from the Bratt Monopoly. Indeed he drew up the monopoly articles of incorporation with such cunning that nobody can profiteer in selling...
...that to have halved the liquor consumption of Sweden, while at the same time making bootleggery unprofitable, is not enough. That view is not shared by His Majesty Gustav V, 70-year-old tennis-playing King of Sweden, who, from the first, has encouraged, befriended and warmly praised Ivan Bratt...