LIQUOR: Gentlemanly Temperance

"Your industry needs a code of ethics to bring together all the respectable, responsible members of your business," barked New York State's Commissioner of Taxation & Finance to a meeting of liquor dealers in Manhattan last week. "You may not be aware of it, but there is a real probability that a strong prohibition movement may be with us again within a few years if the abuses of the liquor industry continue."

In a shabby Washington walk-up languishes a lackpenny remnant of the Anti-Saloon League, making itself known only by an occasional press...

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