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...encourage greater activity and effectiveness on the part of the state and local governmental agencies in enforcing the liquor laws. . . . It was not contemplated that the Federal Government would assume the entire burden of enforcement . . . or create an enormous police force. . . . True, there is no legal way of compelling state legislatures to enact enforcement statutes or to compel state authorities to aid in enforcement. ... In those states which have repealed enforcement statutes and whose authorities do not perform a proper share of the work, there will continue to be grave deficiencies in enforcement. Where such conditions exist, they...
Exclaimed Senator Johnson: "The American people are entitled to all the information. ... To coerce action before Senators are fully informed, to compel consideration before every scrap of information and every pertinent document is before them should be resented by every individual Senator...
Here, for over twenty years, the First Lady of the University led a life so active that not even illness could compel her to retire and to become a legend while she still lived. Only at the end did she yield; and not even the end means for her a final severance from Harvard, for she will become one of its fairest legends...
...have does not in the least mind criticism no matter how severe it may be, but I very much dislike falsehoods that are created entirely by the imagination of the writer. As much as you may desire to increase circulation, it seems to me that you would compel your writers to at least be reasonably truthful. There have been a number of false statements but I will merely call your attention to a few of them. You publish a picture of mine containing a caption "Americans do not know how to love,"-I never made such a statement. I believe...
...assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, advanced last week at the Hotel McAlpin, in Manhattan, weighty departmental reasons for airplane accident silence. Said he: ". . . Sole purpose in investigating accidents is to determine causes and promote aviation by what we learn . . . obtaining all our information from voluntary sources. We cannot compel persons to come forward with it." The inference Secretary Young implied was, that official silence is essential for such cooperation; that his department did not choose to fix a cause for the accident only to have legal procedure haled in and departmental records opened to rifling by shyster lawyers...