Business: War Between States

Within the hour prior to his sudden death in a committee room in Ohio's State House last month, President William Forbes Morgan of Distilled Spirits Institute read aloud a lucid eight-page statement urging rejection of a so-called "antidiscriminatory" bill which sought to prohibit liquor imports into Ohio from States whose liquor laws discriminated against Ohio. Performing his most important task since leaving his job as Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee to become front man for U. S. liquor interests (TIME, March 1), Mr. Morgan contended that the legislation: 1) proposed retaliatory measures...

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