Behind locked doors on the 13th floor of Chicago's Garrick Building, members of the Cook County Women's Christian Temperance Union met excitedly one afternoon last week. Notably absent from the meeting was the group's president, dimpled, thin-haired Mrs. Beata Brucer, 45. Against her the Cook County W. C. T. U. was deliberating grave charges.
It all began when President Brucer, wife of an unemployed carpenter, met Arthur J. Lynch during the Presidential campaign. Mr. Lynch, then a Dry pressagent for the Business Men's Prohibition Foundation, was plying his trade in behalf of...
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