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February 13, 1930

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DRY LAW DENOUNCED AS HOUSE BODY OPENS WET BILLS HEARING; Anti-Prohibitionists Begin Drive Before Judiciary Committee to Modify or Repeal. TEST FAILED, SAYS GRAHAM Chairman Asserts That Ten Years' Trial Shows the Need of Finding Some Other Method. LIGGETT PORTRAYS EVILS Writer Charges Liquor Traffic Corrupts Various Cities--CrowdApplauds Retorts. Time Schedule Is Planned. Dry Leaders Absent. DRY LAW DENOUNCED AS HOUSE BODY OPENS Graham Explains Purpose. Points to Convention Method Lays 1,360 Killings to Dry Law. Canadian Experiments Recalled. Dyer Would Limit Hearing. Blocks the Dyer Proposal. Liggett Says He Was Once Dry. Describes Trip to Kansas. Audience Applauds Witness. Says Farmers Go In for Stills. Says Border Traffic Is Simple. Gov. Green May Be a Witness. Kansas Officials Deny Testimony.

By Special to The New York Times

Anti-prohibitionists open drive to modify or repeal 18th Amendment and Volstead law as House Judiciary Com begins hearings on pleas submitted by wets

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Ernst Fuchs (artist)

1930Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter, sculptor, and illustrator (died 2015)[†]

Ernst Fuchs was an Austrian painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, architect, stage designer, composer, poet, and one of the founders of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. In 1972, he acquired the derelict Otto Wagner Villa in Hütteldorf, which he restored and transformed. The villa was inaugurated as the Ernst Fuchs Museum in 1988.

Israel Kirzner

1930Israel Kirzner, English-American economist, author, and academic[†]

Israel Meir Kirzner is a British-born American economist, historian, rabbi, and Talmudist closely identified with the Austrian School.