PROHIBITION: Whass Bizness ... ?

It is a hard thing to prove that a man is drunk, or even that he has been drinking. And the more prominent the man, the harder the proof.

There were no names, and little prospect of there being any names, connected with "a change of policy" announced last week by the Washington News, Scripps-Howard tabloid.

Said the News: "This newspaper proposes, from this time forward, to publish as news the appearance on duty of any so-called dry member of the House or Senate in an obviously intoxicated condition. . . . When a...

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