Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some three months ago complaints of Walter Reed patients reached the ears of Senator David Aiken Reed, chairman of the Military Affairs Committee (no kin of the late Major Reed). The complaints were: insufficient food of poor quality, "wormy" fruit, no milk to drink, squelching of patient criticism.
Secretary Good had the Reed charges investigated. Last week he answered Senator Reed specifically, telling which charges had been found true, which untrue. True conditions acknowledged over the Good signature included the following:
Retorted Senator Gould, unabashed: "Everybody who knows me knows that I have always favored light wines and beer. The people in my section make wine from elderberry flowers and grapes. God Almighty put those flowers and vines on earth and He intended them to be used."
Maine has been a Dry State for 75 years. Arthur Robinson Gould was elected in 1926 as one of its Dry Senators. Last week Senator Gould, 72-year-old Yankee, was involuntarily shown to be not so Dry as many of his constituents had supposed. The revelation came during a...
The legality of the sale of unfermented grape juice was admitted by Prohibition Commissioner Doran. But he was much less sure that Senator Gould had not violated the Volstead Act by making it into wine under the company's instructions, though it is not the Prohibition Unit's...