Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Border. On the claim that 85% of Canadian liquor entering the U. S. is run across the Detroit River, Assistant- Secretary of the Treasury Lowman tightened his blockade along that mile-wide stream until it fairly bristled with Dry and Wet armament. Pleasure craft traversed it at their own peril. The roughest, tough- est gangster element alone stayed in the rum racket to battle...
Just before one daybreak a mahogany-colored rumrunner with a wide white stripe just above the water line shot out from the shadowy Canadian shore. Within 100 feet of a Detroit dock it was intercepted by U. S. Customs Speedboat 1401, patrolling the waterfront. Without warning a man in the bow of the rumrunner opened revolver fire on the two customs men in No. 1401. Sharply the U. S. agents returned the fire, forced the rumrunner to veer about, retreat toward the international line. No. 1401 gave chase up along Belle Isle under a peppery rain of bullets. Its windshield...
...Canada had her own troubles in this liquor war. To Ontario officials came Canadian pleasure-boat owners with complaints of being fired upon on the Detroit River by U. S. customs men. One complainant, no rumrunner, exhibited a boat riddled with bullets...
Yale University William DeWitt Mitchell LL.D. Vincent Masscy, Canadian Minister to the U. S LL.D. Henry Lewis Stimson LL.D. Arthur Holly Compton physicist D.Sc. William Hallock Park, physician (bacteriology, hygiene) D.Sc. Willa Cather, author (Death Comes for the Archbishop) D.Litt. Henry Knox Sherrill, rector (Trinity Church, Boston) D.D. George Leslie Harrison, Governor Federal Reserve Bank of New York...
...club members are flyers, one of them might conveniently manage the club. At least five charter members should be qualified flyers. If novices are to be taught, a professional instructor should be hired. He could also supervise the maintenance of the planes. That is the Canadian and British system. Such an instructor-manager might be a commercial pilot operating in the neighborhood and working for the club only part time...