Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Feeling ran high in Niagara Falls. The Elks met and a mass meeting of citizens was planned. Coast Guardsmen Glenn Jennings and Chris Dew were held by the State police, the former perhaps for murder. In Washington, the Prohibition Bureau was badly embarrassed. Only that week, Agent Robert L. Taylor had had to be dismissed in West Virginia for shooting into an automobile. Before that there was an outcry from Canadians who complained that U. S. rum guards had fired across the boundary line at Detroit. Near Fresno, Calif., one Frank Aiello was lately shot dead for not stopping...
...Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran took the position that the Niagara Falls shooting involved the Coast Guard only and not any of his agents. "We are not going to put up with firing on vehicles on highways," he said...
...feeling continued high at Niagara Falls, and elsewhere. The Senate, on a motion by New York's Copeland, ordered an inquiry by its Commerce Committee. Commander Charles S. Root of the U. S. Coast Guard left Washington to inquire for himself. "Put them in uniform," said editorials throughout the land...
Yellow fever has been stamped out in the Americas; it still rages on the coast of West Africa. Ten years ago Dr. Hideyo...
...Foundation has been at work on the problem in the U. S. and Africa. Progress has been held up because none of the experimental animals would contract the African form of yellow fever. In the end it was Dr. Noguchi him self who went to Accra on the West coast of Africa to experiment, was there taken to the hospital with yellow fever. On the fifth day when his high temperature was reluctantly dropping and the second stage of the disease had set in, he had a monkey from India (Macacus rhesus) inoculated with his infected blood. The monkey died...