PROHIBITION: In God We Trust

"CORDIALS" and "BEVERAGES" read a pair of brilliant orange signs above the shrieking-green bay windows of a shop that opened last week at No. 201 East 44th Street, Manhattan. A small device on the door showed the American eagle rampant, announced that the shop was guarded by the Supreme Protective System Co., ip East 23rd Street. Twinkling in the display windows, dazzling passersby, were bottles, arrogantly full.

Men and women (not children) who stopped to gaze and gape were hailed from the doorway by a clerk. Shouted he. though a traffic policeman was...

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