Would Halt Practice Salesmen Treating Customers with Booze
The committee said the step was suggested by General Andrews, assistant secretary of the treasury in charge of prohibition enforcement, who wrote that big sales agencies often supply generous quantities of liquor by way of entertainment and that such expense accounts help make the market that supports the organized liquor traffic.
New York, Oct. 31. - (AP) - As a new step in prohibition enforcement, the citizens committee of one thousand has sent to 14,000 of the leading manufacturing executives of the country a communication urging them to prevent their salesmen from using liquor in promotion of sales.
This means of cutting off what the committee considers one of the important markets for bootleg liquor, was suggested by General Lincoln C. Aṇdrews, assistant secretary of the treasury, in charge of prohibition enforcement, the committee announced. In a letter to the committee which was organized to promote law observance, General Andrews said in part:
"I know from personal experience that the big sales agencies for large manufacturers often make it a practice to supply generous quantities of liquor by way of entertainment upon all manner of occasions, where their customers are meeting together for one purpose or another.
"Big manufacturing business, through allowing, or rather fostering these expense accounts for large quantities of entertainment liquor, is making a considerable part of the market for liquor, which in turn brings into existence and supports the organized liquor traffic which furnishes the liquor.
"How inconsistent on the part of these big businesses who claim they want the law enforced."
A photostatic copy of his letter was included in each communication to the 14,000 manufacturers.
Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, November 1, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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Would Halt Practice Salesmen Treating Customers with Booze
The committee said the step was suggested by General Andrews, assistant secretary of the treasury in charge of prohibition enforcement, who wrote that big sales agencies often supply generous quantities of liquor by way of entertainment and that such expense accounts help make the market that supports the organized liquor traffic.
New York, Oct. 31. - (AP) - As a new step in prohibition enforcement, the citizens committee of one thousand has sent to 14,000 of the leading manufacturing executives of the country a communication urging them to prevent their salesmen from using liquor in promotion of sales.
This means of cutting off what the committee considers one of the important markets for bootleg liquor, was suggested by General Lincoln C. Aṇdrews, assistant secretary of the treasury, in charge of prohibition enforcement, the committee announced. In a letter to the committee which was organized to promote law observance, General Andrews said in part:
"I know from personal experience that the big sales agencies for large manufacturers often make it a practice to supply generous quantities of liquor by way of entertainment upon all manner of occasions, where their customers are meeting together for one purpose or another.
"Big manufacturing business, through allowing, or rather fostering these expense accounts for large quantities of entertainment liquor, is making a considerable part of the market for liquor, which in turn brings into existence and supports the organized liquor traffic which furnishes the liquor.
"How inconsistent on the part of these big businesses who claim they want the law enforced."
A photostatic copy of his letter was included in each communication to the 14,000 manufacturers.
Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, November 1, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, November 1, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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Would Halt Practice Salesmen Treating Customers with Booze
The committee said the step was suggested by General Andrews, assistant secretary of the treasury in charge of prohibition enforcement, who wrote that big sales agencies often supply generous quantities of liquor by way of entertainment and that such expense accounts help make the market that supports the organized liquor traffic.
New York, Oct. 31. - (AP) - As a new step in prohibition enforcement, the citizens committee of one thousand has sent to 14,000 of the leading manufacturing executives of the country a communication urging them to prevent their salesmen from using liquor in promotion of sales.
This means of cutting off what the committee considers one of the important markets for bootleg liquor, was suggested by General Lincoln C. Aṇdrews, assistant secretary of the treasury, in charge of prohibition enforcement, the committee announced. In a letter to the committee which was organized to promote law observance, General Andrews said in part:
"I know from personal experience that the big sales agencies for large manufacturers often make it a practice to supply generous quantities of liquor by way of entertainment upon all manner of occasions, where their customers are meeting together for one purpose or another.
"Big manufacturing business, through allowing, or rather fostering these expense accounts for large quantities of entertainment liquor, is making a considerable part of the market for liquor, which in turn brings into existence and supports the organized liquor traffic which furnishes the liquor.
"How inconsistent on the part of these big businesses who claim they want the law enforced."
A photostatic copy of his letter was included in each communication to the 14,000 manufacturers.
Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, November 1, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, November 1, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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Would Halt Practice Salesmen Treating Customers with Booze
The committee said the step was suggested by General Andrews, assistant secretary of the treasury in charge of prohibition enforcement, who wrote that big sales agencies often supply generous quantities of liquor by way of entertainment and that such expense accounts help make the market that supports the organized liquor traffic.
New York, Oct. 31. - (AP) - As a new step in prohibition enforcement, the citizens committee of one thousand has sent to 14,000 of the leading manufacturing executives of the country a communication urging them to prevent their salesmen from using liquor in promotion of sales.
This means of cutting off what the committee considers one of the important markets for bootleg liquor, was suggested by General Lincoln C. Aṇdrews, assistant secretary of the treasury, in charge of prohibition enforcement, the committee announced. In a letter to the committee which was organized to promote law observance, General Andrews said in part:
"I know from personal experience that the big sales agencies for large manufacturers often make it a practice to supply generous quantities of liquor by way of entertainment upon all manner of occasions, where their customers are meeting together for one purpose or another.
"Big manufacturing business, through allowing, or rather fostering these expense accounts for large quantities of entertainment liquor, is making a considerable part of the market for liquor, which in turn brings into existence and supports the organized liquor traffic which furnishes the liquor.
"How inconsistent on the part of these big businesses who claim they want the law enforced."
A photostatic copy of his letter was included in each communication to the 14,000 manufacturers.
Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, November 1, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, November 1, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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Would Halt Practice Salesmen Treating Customers with Booze
The committee said the step was suggested by General Andrews, assistant secretary of the treasury in charge of prohibition enforcement, who wrote that big sales agencies often supply generous quantities of liquor by way of entertainment and that such expense accounts help make the market that supports the organized liquor traffic.
New York, Oct. 31. - (AP) - As a new step in prohibition enforcement, the citizens committee of one thousand has sent to 14,000 of the leading manufacturing executives of the country a communication urging them to prevent their salesmen from using liquor in promotion of sales.
This means of cutting off what the committee considers one of the important markets for bootleg liquor, was suggested by General Lincoln C. Aṇdrews, assistant secretary of the treasury, in charge of prohibition enforcement, the committee announced. In a letter to the committee which was organized to promote law observance, General Andrews said in part:
"I know from personal experience that the big sales agencies for large manufacturers often make it a practice to supply generous quantities of liquor by way of entertainment upon all manner of occasions, where their customers are meeting together for one purpose or another.
"Big manufacturing business, through allowing, or rather fostering these expense accounts for large quantities of entertainment liquor, is making a considerable part of the market for liquor, which in turn brings into existence and supports the organized liquor traffic which furnishes the liquor.
"How inconsistent on the part of these big businesses who claim they want the law enforced."
A photostatic copy of his letter was included in each communication to the 14,000 manufacturers.
Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, November 1, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, November 1, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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October 31, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Evening Star, Douglas Daily Dispatch, The Daily Worker, Chicago Daily Tribune, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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