What might be portended by a secret meeting, in Washington, D. C., of the following: James Wolcott Wadsworth, onetime (1915-27) U. S. Senator from New York; Edward Stephen Harkness, Manhattan philanthropist, and Charles Hamilton Sabin, Manhattan banker; Sidney Trowbridge Miller, Detroit lawyer-philanthropist; Pierre Samuel du Pont, Delaware industrialist-educator; Benedict Crowell, Cleveland engineer; Senators Walter Evens Edge of New Jersey and William Cabell Bruce of Maryland; Representative John Charles Linthicum of Maryland; and many another?
Among the others was Capt. William H. Stayton of Baltimore, active chief of the Association Against the Prohibition...
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