Word: courting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Administrator Campbell rolled up a batch of several hundred uninvestigated complaints against speakeasies, despatched them to Commissioner Whalen, called that official's attention to Section 1530 of the Penal Code and the Court of Appeals' decision, told him, in effect, to get busy and dry up New York City. Wrote Prohibitor Campbell: "If the police make raids and the several magistrates and district attorneys conscientiously do their duty, the speakeasies in New York will rapidly fade away...
Theirs was the spook with which a bailiff, carrying a Municipal Court summons, haunted the Blackstone Hotel last week seeking Senator Moses. But the Senator was not to be found. Hotel employes explained he had "just checked...
...tongues of Mayor Hague's enemies clacked. He had, they said again, transferred his wealth to England where he has a house (TIME, May 27). He would, they predicted, never return to the U. S. to risk the outcome of a U. S. Supreme Court verdict such as Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair received for refusing to answer the U. S. Senate. But he said: "I'll be back this fall. . . . I'll never retire from politics...
Regular business on the agenda of the present league session will include the election by the council and assembly of two world court judges, and election by the assembly only of three minor nations to nonpermanent seats on the council...
...hour and 45 minutes later the new Peruvian municipal government was installed in Tacna City, at exactly 4 p. m. The local Peruvian Superior Court was proclaimed to be functioning at 5 p. m. Trucks and vans piled high with Chilean furniture rumbled out all afternoon from Peruvian Tacna City, sped to the still Chilean seaport of Arica City, 39 miles distant and 1,800 feet below...