PROHIBITION: Silver Flasks

Smith Wildman Brookhart, U. S. Senator from Iowa, last week fulfilled a promise to himself and colleagues. He arose in the Senate and told all he had to tell about the "booze-party" at the Willard Hotel in Washington which he and other Senators attended three years ago (TIME, Oct. 7).

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"After I was elected in 1926 I received an invitation signed Walter J. Fahy. . . . I threw it in the waste basket. . . . Then I came on down to Washington and I...

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