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...professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, entered her home, found the living room topsy-turvy, her husband's bedroom locked. She called police who broke open the bedroom door. On Prof. Norm's bed lay John Broderick, burglar, with an open volume of Shakespeare and two empty quart bottles of 1911 Green River whisky...
...Salle, Ill., one Thomas Tominillo was arrested for possessing a quart of moonshine. He was released. Reason: It was used for alcoholic rubs for his baby, recovering from pneumonia...
...cocktail. Though it is true that the ships carry no bars, a few words with the ingenious Chinese room boy and, lo, a bottle of the finest appears?really good, too. Their prices compare favorably with those existing aboard competing liners, prices ranging from three to ten dollars per quart, depending upon the demand for the brand you order. There may be some boats flying the Dollar house flag upon which a passenger cannot easily obtain liquor; if there are I haven't heard of them. J. P. MARQUARD...
Last October the federal grand jury in Florida returned a secret indictment against Congressman Michaelson, charging him with illegally importing "six quarts of John Haig whiskey, two quarts of creme de menthe liquor, one quart of taffel Akavait, one quart of creme de cacao, one quart of cherry brandy and one keg of plum Barbaucourt." In November, Congressman Michaelson was elected to the House for the fifth time. Last February he voted for the Five & Ten (Jones) Law as commanded by the Anti-Saloon League. Last week a warrant was out for his arrest on the Florida indictment. Bond...
Originally swart, nervous, cynical Roberto Farinacci was famed as the Castor Oil Man of Fascismo. Politicians who rashly opposed Il Duce were ambushed and forced to swallow a pint, a quart, even a sickening gallon of what Farinacci called his "golden nectar of nausea." As Secretary General of the Fascist Party he wielded Ku-Klux powers of life and death. His last notorious, outrageous exploit was to warp the very fibre of Italian Justice and get off virtually scot free the Fascist murderers of the multimillionaire Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti (TIME, April 5, 1926). Leading U. S. correspondents have since...