PROHIBITION: Wets, Drys, Weaslers

Drinking Drys in the House from Maryland, Missouri, California, Delaware, Michigan and Pennsylvania spent a twitchy 24 hours last week under the threat of public exposure. The Senate Lobby Committee, pursuing its investigation of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, had commandeered from that organization's private files a confidential report on the Wet and Dry politics of Congressional districts in those six States and the personal drinking habits of each Representative. The report had been prepared by big lumbering Carter Field, onetime Washington correspondent of...

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