The Mayor of New York, as everyone knows, drinks. The President of the U. S., as everyone also knows, does not drink. Last week one of the Mayor's officials collided with one of the President's in the murky realm of Prohibition enforcement.
There are, by police count, some 32,000 speakeasies in New York City, all of them profitably patronized. There is in the
Penal Code of the State of New York a section (No. 1530) providing for the closure of a public nuisance. There is a recent decision by the State Court of Appeals that...
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