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...fight against human excesses . . . is difficult. The fight against profiteering purveyors of alcohol is difficult. The fight against these two Powers combined is HOPELESS." -Ivan Bratt...
...amount of liquor toped and swizzled in Sweden has been approximately halved during the past 15 years. Arrests for drunkenness have been halved. Crimes of violence have been reduced almost two-thirds. Swedes give the credit to Dr. Ivan Bratt. Yet he has just resigned as President of the Swedish Liquor & Wine Trust: a unique corporation, doing business with the strange object of making as few sales as possible yet always paying to contented shareholders...
Parents used to take sick children to Dr. Ivan Bratt, a young and smart child specialist, in 1909. Some still do. However 1909 is pertinent because it was then that Swedish temperance societies polled 1,800,000 votes for absolute prohibition and only 20,000 for modified prohibition. That straw vote scared florid liquor barons white-and gave young Dr. Bratt a keen business idea...
...scheme was to form a money pool of shrewd, rich friends and buy out the scared liquor interests of Sweden for a song. The doctor's wife, a Baroness in her own right, and other influential connections at Court and among politicians, facilitated Schemer Bratt by contriving to postpone the enactment of national prohibition, while his pool bought out the liquor barons cheap...
Score, Harvard 1981, 11. St. John's Goals: First period: Batchelder 3.00: Hallowell 6.35: Batchelder 12.40: Batchelder 14.20. Second period: Watts 2.15: Exerett 3.20: Watts 4.15: Garrison 6.15: Hallowell 14.00. Third period: Everett 3.00: Hallowell 6.35. Referee, Bratt. Time, two 15 minute periods and one 12 minute period