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...each boat a radioman worked hour after hour, sent into the ether offers to Dr. Gunnar Horn, scientist aboard the Bratt-vaag, for "exclusives" on the story, pictures, diary. Each pleaded with him for a midocean rendezvous at a designated point in the Arctic. Each could only hope and pray that the message would be received, that the Brattvaag would be there, or that they would happen upon...
Today Carl Gustaf Ekman is Grand Master of the Swedish Good Templars (Prohibitionists), foes of the famed "Bratt System" by which Swedes are allowed to buy driblets of liquor under an elaborately regulated system of permits at Government stores (TIME, Aug. 27, 1928). Last week tall King Gustaf V, still in deepest mourning for his late Queen, called to the Prime Ministry his Great Templar...
...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...