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President Plugge's latest addition to I. B. C. is the Yankee Network. Boston station WNAC and Providence station WEAN now bombard the British Isles with short wave advertisements, try to wean His Majesty's subjects from their favorite liver pills to others. The pill now chiefly plugged by President Plugge was announced before the holidays cheerily thus : "You must be ready for Christmas! Begin taking Bile Beans right away...
...competitive trunk line territory. New York Central, Pennsylvania's traditional rival, led 16 other big eastern roads in a mighty howl of protest to the I. C. C. They failed to agree with Pennsylvania's William Wallace Atterbury that store-door service was the only way to wean back l.c.l. freight now in the hands of truckers. They doubted that the service would be worth its cost. But they were sure that if Pennsylvania and its allies were permitted to start the service, all other eastern carriers would have to meet the competition. Pennsylvania, argued the opposing roads...
...Overton. An outcast among regular Senate Democrats, Long flays Broussard for not favoring his plan "to break up big fortunes." He explains the Broussard opposition to Prohibition thus: "He was afraid enforcement of Prohibition would be so strict that he could not get his bottle. You will never wean Edwin from the bottle but we are going to wean him from the Senate...
...Cabell the land of Pictesme is his spirit's home. Neither the daily visits of his postman. Fearing fan mail from the outside world, nor the American flag that flaps before his summer writing-porch, in "that Viriginia summer resort which nowadays . . . is best known to my inattentiveness," can wean him from...
Drink. President Portes Gil turned next to Prohibition, the object of his latest enthusiasm. He issued a lengthy document explaining the steps by which he hopes to wean Mexico from the pulque bottle. He created a national committee, with the Secretary of Public Health at its head, to carry these steps out. The steps...