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Prohibition. New York's Legislature ratified the 18th Amendment in 1919. In 1926, the people of New York modified the sustaining act. Governor Smith flayed those politicians who had prevented a referendum on the Amendment in the first place. Of the future he said: "Under our form of government and guided by the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States [declaring national Prohibition binding upon States], the question . . . is removed from the States and is focused upon the national legislature at Washington. Gradually our people are beginning to realize that there and only there can any change...
During the week, Governor Smith had occasion, to express himself on one more topic. Some Ku Klux Klansmen in Queens, N. Y., asked him to punish their municipal authorities for breaking up a Klan parade. Governor Smith answered that he could not act but that he hoped justice would be done. He also said: "I regard the purposes of your organization with abhorrence...
Chairman Reed Smoot of the Senate Finance Committee and Secretary Mellon of the Treasury engaged last week in a solemn exchange of letters-for-publication. Senator Smoot suggested, Secretary Mellon agreed, that it might be wise to "delay" action of the Revenue Act of 1928 until after March 15, when the 1927 income tax returns will be available...
...theory underlying the U. S. Army is primarily a theory of defense. The Congressional Act embodying the theory is called the National Defense Act, passed in 1916, amended in 1920 and 1922. Besides charging the Assistant Secretary of War with the specific task of finding shot and shell and guns to shoot them for U. S. defense, the act sets up the U. S. military as follows: 1) The Regular Army, 2) The Nattional Guard, 3) The Organized Reserves. The U. S. is divided into nine corps areas of equal population. In war, each area would supply one Army division...
Munitions sufficient to supply two of these three armies until U. S. industry could be converted to a war basis are supposed to be stored in U. S. arsenals. This provision of the National Defense Act was the nub of the first of the War Department announcements. Secretary Davis notified the President that U. S. arsenals were shy some $516,000,000 worth of reserve munitions...