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Frisby Forecasts Prohibition Inquiry Impersonation Plan
Congressman Horace Walpole Frisby outlines a phonograph record plan to impersonate committee members, submit a report to President Hoover, and visit speakeasies to test prohibition enforcement. He claims time-saving tricks to win influence and questions the Wickersham Committee's pace. The piece includes garbled interjections and unrelated notes from the page.
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