The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-16

Of Grand Marnier (ObtainabIe from only Q few esnbasstes) Legal liquor may be almost as good.
 OFF THE RECORD
 One of the biggest news fiukes of the year resulted from Roose- velt's confidential talk at the Gridiron club dinner last week. The president discussed the stab ilization of the dollar in mock serious vein. Although "no reporters were present" one of them took Roosevelt seriously, featured the story. It appeared in one of New York's leading papers, got call-backs and in- quiries from the entire world. William Allen White, the sage of Emporia, Kans., say that selling anything in the middle west is like selling the Talmud to Hitler. :. $30,000 worth of smuggled Canadian whiskey was shipped to Baltimore for Wash ington distribution, just before repeal. The justice department is now Investigating reports that some of the big distilling inter- ests were behind the deal. A lot of former dry officials have gone in for liquor lobbying. Be- sides Mrs Wildebrandt and Dr Doran there are Howard T. Jones, former assistant commits sioner of the prohibition bureau, and Willard West, former com- missioner of internal revenue, both seeking liquor import per- mits.
 ANTT.MONOPOLY BOARD
 General Hugh Johnson has un-' der consideration the creation of 8 new MIRA agency, an Anti monopoly board. The idea was suggested to him by North Da- Senator Gerald P. Nye. The board would serve as an investi- gational body to examine charges of price-fixing and mon- opoly by industries under codes. Johnson thinks so well of the suggestion that he considering asking Nye to take the chair manship. Russian recogni- ton has already proven a busi. ness boon to the flag industry. The navy has just placed an or der for several thousand Soviet banners for it's ships. The flags consist of a solid red bunting with crossed circle and hammer.
 Iowa's bombastic, arch-repub- Mcan senator Dickinson is sec retly planning to demand investi. gations of the MIRA and the AAA at the coming session of congress. Dickinson really has nothing special in mind, but he would like to get a fishing expedition" under way in the hope of turning up something Of political value. The federal soil erosition service has just awarded a contract for the larg- est single aerial photographic map ever undertaken. 1t will cover 24,5OO square miles of the Navajo and Zuni Indian res- ervations, located in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. The area approximates that of the combined states of COnnecti- cut, Massachusetts, New Hamp- shire, Delaware and Rhode Is- land.
 Mid-western agricultural inter- ests will renew their effort to give the Philippines full and fm- mediate independence at the coming session of congress. 7. The farmers want to cut loose from the islands in order to bar Filipino agricultural products. Last year 8 bill granting independence in 10 years was enacted, but the Fili- pino legislature turned 1t down. . Now the farmers see an- other chance to put through their plan. President Roosevelt will not read a letter in long hand if he can help 1t. He personally writes beautiful script, but dislikes reading that of others. On December 17, 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt received word that at 10:30 a. m. that day Orville Wright, lying face down in a motor-propelled machine, had remained in the air 12 min- utes and had flown a distance of 12O feet. In commemora- tion of this historic event, avia- tion enthusiasts have proposed to President Franklin D. Roose- welt that he proclaim December 17-tomorrow = National Ayia- tion day.
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