DRINKS: Lee's Amendment

The ghost of a woe nine years dead rose up last week and reeled drunkenly across the U.S. stage. His hour was gaudy, but brief. At week's end no innocent bystander would have begrudged Senators and Congressmen a couple of stiff quickies to quiet their jumpy nerves. For a few moments it had looked as if Prohibition might come back.

Short, glib Joshua Bryan (for William Jennings) Lee is an ordained Baptist minister, in the Senate represents legally dry Oklahoma. To the bill to draft 18-& 19-year-olds he tacked an amendment: ". ....

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