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...President receives abundant advice. Last week Missouri's representative Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer, No. 2 Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee, urged the President to declare for 2.75% beer as a Prohibition solution. The President shunted beer to the deep-bottomed repository of the Wickersham committee...
Though the House obediently passed this legislation without major change, Wets raised their usual cry that Prohibition was responsible for filling the U. S. penitentiaries,* taunted the Drys with their pre-Prohibition claim that the 18th would empty the jails. Representative Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer of Missouri, potent member of the Judiciary Committee, who ten years ago wrote the interstate automobile theft act to break up organized car-stealing, decried the use of his law by judges to jail young violators...
Representative Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer is a short full-paunched man from Missouri, red of face, generous of nose and nature. He has been in the House 16 years and ranks next to the chairman on the House Judiciary Committee. Aged 58, he is nobody's fool on the law. A 3% beer man, he voted against the Five & Ten Act. He likes to play the stock market...