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...National Law Enforcement Commission, after a four-month holiday, went to grips again with Prohibition last week. As its eleven members gathered in Washington, Chairman George Woodward Wickersham, all a-twinkle with good humor, remarked to curious newsmen: "You never can tell what kind of blossom will bloom until the plant develops...
...Commission's only blossom in the three subsequent days of its Washington meeting was dissension over the scope of its inquiry. One group of Commissioners wanted to go to what Commissioner Mackintosh called the "guts" of Prohibition? i. e., the enforceability of the 18th Amendment. Other commissioners wished to examine only the skin, study only enforcement procedure. When, after the first day's wrangle, Chairman Wickersham again received newsmen, his spirits seemed less buoyant. Guardedly he declared...
...What have the Atlanta newspapers been doing that they have permitted a thing like this to blossom and flourish . . . and never a line about it? . . . The Telegraph is of the opinion that the more quickly a bad matter is brought to the light . . . the sooner it will be dissipated. . . . If the kluxing effort had been shown up to start with, thousands of good Georgians would never put on a mask or a nightshirt at $10 for a 35? garment and the order would have died aborning...
...employer's nephew and favorite? For a time Margaret herself cannot discover the reason. But when scheming, divorced, baby-blue-eyed Shirley appears on the scene, re-establishes herself in the community, re-engages herself to Stan, Margaret's cold but not really hard heart has begun to blossom. There are naturally complications; in fact, the situation becomes so sinister, hopeless and black that you can hardly hope there will be a happy delivery. Authoress Norris, however, comes smiling through...
Governor Liu Huan-yen of Kwangsi Province went out for a stroll in his garden one evening last week, followed as usual by his bodyguard. As the Governor stooped to admire the moonlike beauty of a lotus blossom, a shot rang out. Down he crumpled in the garden path mortally wounded, died later in hospital...