"DRY" SENATORS
FLASK UNDER CHAIRS NEW YORK, Nov. 4. Au exposure of the private lives of Washington's legislators who satisfy their constituents by voting "Dry," but: satisfy their own appetites through select bootleggers is expected to be made before; a body of grand jurors. [Senator Brookhart has told of a dinner given by Mr. W. J. Fahy, a New York broker, to newly elected or re-elected senators at which under every chair reposed a flask for those on whom the oath of office to support the*Constitution did not weigh .too heavily. He has been invited to appear 'before the grand jurors, but having ignored the request, he has now been served with a subpoena. The grand jurors will also hear the story of the "man with a green hat" who", it is said, was caught delivering liquor and who, when arrested at the door of the Senate office building, gave the name of George L. Cassidy. He, it is understood, is ready to entertain the jurors with stories of how Washington 's elect get liquor.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17146, 31 December 1929, Page 7
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175"DRY" SENATORS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17146, 31 December 1929, Page 7
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