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...Said she: "The contention of the wet and noisy minority is only the voicing of self-indulgence. ... Its arguments appear very childish. . . . The statement that Prohibition has worked no changes in railroad discipline is quite childish. . . . The wet minority of leisure, occupied in establishing social bootlegging, is now alarmed lest the lives of its illegal employes be in danger. Hosts and hostesses have only to be less childish and there will be an end to the strange alliance between liquor and ladies...
Such weapons brought into attack against the "Reds" are not only illegal in spirit, as the Columbia professors point out, but are sharpened on both sides. Nothing would better please the agitator than to supply him with such graphic examples of "capitalistic oppression". Let Mr. Whalen beware lest he throw Brother Rabbit right into the briar patch where he can shout taunts in earnest at the blue-coated cossacks...
...have your letter asking my opinion regarding the Harvard Debating Council Plan for the Enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment. With much of it I find myself in accord, but I should be in grave fear lest section 4 lead to gross abuses. A "federal educational" bureau would become simply the organ of a prohibition party, and this clause might lead to the establishment of an endowed newspaper or some other experiment of more than dubious value...
...inflation of capital assets by power companies, including the Niagara Company's $30,000,000. Political pressure, he claimed, was brought to bear on the then Commissioners-Dwight Filley Davis (War), Hubert Work (Interior), William Jardine. (Agriculture)-who recalled the report and deleted the samples of "power padding" lest they "cause a rumpus" by the companies...
Meanwhile political Washington was acutely conscious of every move made by Citizen Coolidge in California. Speculation continued as to the significance, if any, of this Coolidge junket. President Hoover's White House secretariat, more alarmed about it than anyone else, expressed secret misgivings lest it might portend presidential developments...