S. O. B. 'Leggers

Liquor trading around the Capitol slumped sharply last week after two "traders" were seized by Dry agents near the Senate Office Building. Free on $2,000 bail for peddling drinks to thirsty S. O. B. occupants, George Lyons Cassidy, famed as "The Man in the Green Hat," was arrested for the second time in four months as he was about to enter the Senators ' private domain with six bottles of gin (TIME, Nov. 11). Two hours later the same agents closed in upon William David Goldberg as he was slipping through a back door to the same building with a bundle. "Goldie," as his clients call him, dashed his package to the pavement, smashing its bottles. The agents scooped up a gill of gin as evidence, lugged the legger to the lockup.

Senators, Wet and Dry, were perturbed, for different reasons, at these developments. Their suspicion grew that perhaps these S. O. B. arrests were in some dark manner a veiled retort by President Hoover or his subordinates to senatorial criticism of the uncertain Hoover handling of Prohibition enforcement. They vowed they would not be intimidated by fear of exposure as Dry drinkers. Exclaimed Washington's Dry Senator Jones, author of the Five & Ten Law: "Certainly we ought to know where they [the 'loggers] were going in the office building." Senate Leader Watson spoke about "not guarding the morals of my fellow Senators." Iowa's Senator Brookhart, arch-tattler, shouted his determination of learning the S. O. B. customers of Cassidy and Goldberg.

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