Word: americae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Drys, Consolidated, last week nominated the "Personification of Prohibition,"* Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General, to take charge of enforcement following its projected transfer from the Treasury to the Department of Justice. The Christian Herald opened her campaign under the caption: "TO DRY UP AMERICA: MABEL WALKER WILLEBRANDT." Dr. Daniel A. Poling, the Christian Herald's editor, declared that "every prohibitionist in the U. S. . . . will experience disappointment and regret" if this "remarkable woman" is allowed to retire. He called her "the first figure in the whole field of law observance and law enforcement...
...section, who is flying his own plane on a European air inspection junket, reached Berlin last week. There he inspected the great Tempelhof airport, visited the Rohrbach works, heard that the Germans this summer plan to operate air service from Germany to both North and South America...
...this is the man who, according to the present discerning biographer, "shares with Walt Whitman the distinction of being the greatest imaginative writer that America has produced; his epic, Moby Dick, is one of the supreme poetic monuments of the English language; and in depth of experience and religious insight there is scarcely any one in the nineteenth century, with the exception of Dostoyevsky, who can be placed beside...
...York's Hotel Ambassador, last fortnight, nervous and be-spatted Publisher Harrison refused to discuss onetime Editor Frankau. He also refused to discuss the purpose of his visit to the U.S., beyond the usual foreigner's phrase: "I am studying America." But, in alternately low-voiced and explosive sentences, he was ready to speak of his fondness for golf; his many publications (including Tatler, Sketch, and Daily Chronicle); his 25 paper mills in England, Scotland, Germany; and his 1,500,000 acres of esparto grass in northern Africa...
Money. Amadeo Peter Giannini of San Francisco (TIME, March 5, 1928) controls through his Trans-America Corp. the 117-year-old Bank of America National Assn., resources $416,000,000. Active, persistent is the rumor that it is to be acquired by the 52-year-old Chase National Bank, resources $1,430,000,000. The merged institution would be the peer, in size, of the National City Bank of New York, although not of the new Guaranty Trust Co.-National Bank of Commerce combination...