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...Milford, Conway); power (notably the $32,000,000 generating plant at the 15-mile falls near Monroe, owned by Grafton Power Co., indirect subsidiary of International Paper & Power Corp.); boxwood (notably at Nashua, Keene and Rochester-where last fortnight bells were rung in celebration of the "Dryness" of the Wickersham report [TIME...
This report may appear to some destructive and not constructive, since many Americans doubtless feel that any other system is better than the present. But on the other hand, the findings, if correct, may be of great benefit. Like the Wickersham Report they make it less difficult to think clearly on the Prohibition subject. As is illustrated by the pamphlet mentioned above, many we reformers have been setting the British system up as the solution to America's most virus problem. It substantiated with the elements of truth, the results of this research discredit the English type of Houor regulation...
William Allen White: "To Wickersham means to go around and around, honestly, earnestly, intelligently and get nothing done...
...POLONIUS WICKERSHAM ?By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed...
Influenza (see p. 26) seized many a notable, including: Mme Ernestine Schumann-Heink; Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock; Prisoner, onetime Queens Borough President Maurice Connolly; Wickersham Commissioner and Radcliffe College President Ada Louise Comstock; Utah's Senator Reed Smoot...