On went the Senate Lobby Committee through the Prohibition phase of its investigations. Last week's subjects for scrutiny: the anti-Smith movement of 1928; the anti-Saloon League of America. Developments:
"Fat Cat." First Dry to the witness stand was Edwin Cornell Jameson, president of Globe & Rutgers Fire Insurance Co., director of many another potent company, business partner of New Jersey's Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen (this year a Wet candidate for the Senate). Mr. Jameson was the largest individual contributor ($172,800) to the Hoover campaign (TIME, April 28). Squarejawed,...
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