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Word: abouts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Senator was able and willing, however, to repeat "what is common knowledge." He read into the record a Chicago Tribune story of last year about Washington's "happy, happy drinkers" and free flowing "joy-water." He read the officially reported adventures of four Prohibition agents at the Carlton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Times & Places | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Responsible for Prohibition prosecutions in the District of Columbia is District Attorney Leo A. Rover. Part of the Brookhart outburst was an offer to tell Mr. Rover, before a grand jury, all that Senator Brookhart knows or has heard about Wet Washington. Mr. Rover called at the Prohibition Bureau to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Times & Places | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

They asked him if it were true that the Board's credit was being extended only in cases where loans were otherwise unavailable; they said Congress had intended something quite different. He replied: "I have read the bill about 20 times and I don't understand yet. If...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Draft Man | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

They asked him about a raisin-growers' association which had received a loan, sending the price of one raisin company's bonds up some 30 points. He explained those bonds were held by the public; that the company's valuable tradename ("Sun-Maid") had been saved from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Draft Man | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

They asked him about International Harvester stock and his holdings in it. He showed that the stock had lately (while he was running the company) ranged upwards from $224.25 to $394.25 per share. When it was split 4 for 1, it reached $142 per share. His holdings, he said, are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Draft Man | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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