Word: linthicum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while. But soon (next day) everyone was joining in. The Representative train, en route to supply moneys for the Treasury and Post Office Departments, but stalled by a proposed amendment to prohibit poisonous denaturants in industrial alcohol, became clamorous. The amendment had been offered by Representative John Charles Linthicum of Maryland, who cited the facts that 10% of all industrial alcohol in the U. S. has annually been leaking into beverage channels under Prohibition; that there were 11,700 deaths in 1926 from poisonous alcohol...
...block in the House as presented by its newly chosen leader, the gentleman from Maryland. The policy of our other friend from Maryland, John Philip Hill, was to destroy the Eighteenth Amendment by authorizing beer and wine, but it is apparent that the gentleman from Maryland [Mr. Linthicum], the new leader, has on his banner, 'Hamstring enforcement...
...Senator from New York; Edward Stephen Harkness, Manhattan philanthropist, and Charles Hamilton Sabin, Manhattan banker; Sidney Trowbridge Miller, Detroit lawyer-philanthropist; Pierre Samuel du Pont, Delaware industrialist-educator; Benedict Crowell, Cleveland engineer; Senators Walter Evens Edge of New Jersey and William Cabell Bruce of Maryland; Representative John Charles Linthicum of Maryland; and many another...
More vigorous reaction came from some of the Democrats in the House. Representative Linthicum of Maryland exclaimed...
...which could not be circumvented by diplomacy. Next day a luncheon was given at the White House to Dr. Jose Manuel Puig-Casavrane, Mexican Minister of Education, and Ambassador Don Manuel C. Tellez. Among the guests were Secretary Kellogg, Secretary Work, Secretary Hoover, Representative Stephen G. Porter and Representative Linthicum. The last two are respectively Chairman and ranking Democrat of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, which on March 30 will hold a hearing on the expulsion of foreign nuns and priests by the Mexican Government...