Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"President Wilson vetoed the Volstead Act." (Nominee Robinson voted for it.) ". . . The Prohibition Bureau has been under the Treasury Department, whose head, prior to national prohibition, was largely interested in the liquor business."
Under these circumstances the League Council had to weasel, did. Presiding Finn Hjalmar Procopé refused to allow Costa Rica's question to come up for consideration in open Council, but easily obtained the endorsements of his colleagues for a confidential note to Costa Rica which he personally concocted...
¶ Italian attention was focussed with little pleasure upon French military activities near the Italian border, in the Department of Haute Savoie. Crack infantry and artillery drilled, saluted, climbed mountains. The Berlin press saw a French menace to Italy.
While these things were going on in China last week, callow Nationalist officials prattled of grandiose schemes. Most pompous was that of Wang Peh-chun, Minister of Communications. With his department $700,000,000 in debt, he propounded a "General Plan on Communications." He would spend $10,000,000 developing...
In Manhattan, a Mrs. Elizabeth Uliano, junk dealer; her three daughters Helen Uliano, Mrs. Tessie Balletti and Mrs. Marie Giordano; her granddaughter Elsie Frontali, were all arrested and fined for scuttling through a department store like a pack of rats, stealing whatever they could lay their hands on.