Word: ivan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...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...
...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...