Word: chief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chief advantage of domestic valuation: to prevent fraudulent undervaluation of imports. Example: A shotgun sells abroad for $18.18. Its U. S. selling price is $43.30. The duty in the present bill is $6 plus 45% ad valorem. Valued at its foreign selling price, it will pay a duty of about $14.18. By applying U. S. valuation ($43.30) and maintaining the duty at $14.18, the ad valorem rate would be scaled down to about 18.89%. The remoteness, the complexity, the juggling opportunities of this valuation plan weighed heavily against its ultimate adoption...
...bank balance was beginning to fatten on the proceeds of her series of newspaper articles on "The Inside of Prohibition" (TIME,, Aug. 12 et seq.). In an instalment which flayed the meddlesomeness of the Anti-Saloon League, she trod on the tender toe of a onetime Prohibition enforcement chief at St. Louis...
...frosty morning in February 1924, Gus Orvel Nations, Chief of Federal dry agents at St. Louis, raided the Griesedieck Brewery, arrested Raymond Griesedieck and 43 employes. The U. S. indicted Brewer Griesedieck, Missouri Beverage Inspector Charles Prather and Heber Nations, Missouri Labor Commissioner, brother of Gus Orvel Nations. Minor offenders were released. Prather pleaded guilty, said he received protection money from Griesedieck, split it with Heber Nations. Twice was Heber Nations tried, twice convicted. Twice the U. S. Court of Appeals upset the verdict, ordered a new trial. He is now waiting his third trial, Griesedieck his first...
Wrote Mrs. Willebrandt: "It was charged that Heber Nations' part in the conspiracy was to keep the brewery advised, through his brother Gus, then chief prohibition officer in St. Louis, when it would be safe to run out the forbidden brew...
...chief Rabbi at Jerusalem telegraphed to the chief Rabbi of the British Empire: PALESTINE JEWRY IN GREATEST DANGER RUSH HELP...