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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lowman, onetime Lieutenant Governor of New York, was to replace Brigadier General Lincoln C. Andrews, as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in Charge of Prohibition Enforcement. But Assistant Secretary Andrews was away from his office on a vacation and would not be back before Aug. 1, the transition date, except "to clean up his affairs." Assistant Secretary Lowman was already and practically in charge. The new Commissioner of Prohibition, Dr. James M. Doran, was also ready to function. So last week seemed propitious for calling the district prohibition administrators to Washington for conference and instruction...
...with current events has considerable opportunity to make friends or enemies for magazines. I can assure you that your circulation will not increase through any influence of mine unless I can be convinced that your standards are higher than the issues of your magazine I have had up to date have led me to believe...
Should Mr. Blackmer's stay in France be prolonged beyond the date of the Fall-Sinclair trial, set to open in the District of Columbia Supreme Court on Oct. 17, his absence may cost him $100,000. For in 1925 Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, head of the Senatorial investigating committee which had discovered that it was not oil wells that truth lay at the bottom of, secured the passage of a law empowering the Senate committee to summon witnesses from abroad. Furthermore, the law provided that a person refusing to honor such summons be judged guilty...
Three days after the Bellanca-Martine announcement, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh emerged from conferences in Washington to speak five sentences concerning "the establishment at an early date of a passenger-carrying air transport line that will be national in its scope." Possible allies of Colonel Lindbergh are such men as William B. Mayo, chief of the aircraft division of the Ford Motor Co.; Harry Knight, Harold M. Bixby and William B. Robertson, the St. Louis backers of Colonel Lindbergh's transatlantic flight; Howard E. Coffin and Paul Henderson of the National Air Transport Inc. (air mail operators); Casey Jones...
...from 181 to 184 days. 2) The month is not an even multiple of the seven-day week. Except for February each month contains four weeks plus two or three days. For 1927, January, April, July, October and December have five Saturdays, other months but four. Day names and dates change each month. 3) The calendar is not fixed; it changes each year. Because the ordinary year has one day over 52 weeks, the date of the month falls each year on a different day of the week from the preceding year...