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Closer to the old-fashioned esthete is hollow-eyed, taciturn Maurice Sterne, hard at work in California last week on a panel for the Department of Justice. Once a bottle washer in a Manhattan saloon, he later spent many peaceful years in Italy, taught Edward Bruce, a prime advocate of the Government's new deal for artists, how to paint...
...squat prow to the curling dragons on its 30-foot poop, from the lacquered weathervanes on its raked masts to the enormous rudder. Inside it will be a junk de luxe, built of solid teak with cargo space subdivided into ten double staterooms with connecting baths, main saloon, dining saloon, galley with an electric refrigerator. The forecastle will quarter some 20 Chinese seamen. Subscribing Shipmates subject to seasickness may pay the extra cost of having their bunks hung on gimbals like a binnacle. There will be twin Diesel engines to propel the craft through the windless...
Your recent comment on the Anti-Saloon League Convention at St. Louis [TIME, Dec. 16] was curt, clear, but incomplete and incorrect...
...course there are only two basic ideas about liquor, wet and dry. If anyone expected the Anti-Saloon League to change its fundamental idea" that intoxicating beverages are harmful, dangerous and habit-forming, and therefore the traffic therein should be suppressed, they were of course disappointed. As for new ideas about how to advocate the cause of sobriety TIME itself referred to the new songs introduced at St. Louis, and the press associations considered the plan of home talent dramas developed by the Anti-Saloon League sufficiently new to give the story nationwide circulation. Also there was the new idea...
...Anti-Saloon League of America...