"That," said Henry Morgenthau Jr., sniffing at a big red carnation in his buttonhole as he stepped into his office at the Treasury one morning last week, "is in honor of two years of Repeal. I think we have every reason to be moderately satisfied with the results."One result was that, on Repeal's second birthday, a citizen could buy himself a drink of hard liquor across a bar in 28 States and the District of Columbia. Only one State is wholly dry—Alabama. The Federal Government had during the past fiscal year taken...
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