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convention adopts plank for repeal and immediate modification of Volstead law
274 speakeasies to be locked
CHICAGO, Thursday, June 30. -- Following is the vote in detail as taken by the Democratic convention early this morning on the question of substituting the minority for the majority (wet) report on the prohibition plank in the platform, the "no" votes standing for outright repeal and legalized beer, the "yes" votes for resubmission:
Ritchie and Walsh join in appeal
W E Haskell, F J Wilson and others testify in Curtis case; new clue revealed in Wilson's testimony
1932Bruno Kastner, German actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1890)[†]
Richard Otto Bruno Kastner was a German stage and film actor, screenwriter, and film producer whose career was most prominent in the 1910s and 1920s during the silent film era. Kastner was one of the most popular leading men in German films during his career's peak in the 1920s.