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...absurd as it might have been and at no time does The Criminal Code rely for its effect on vaudeville gag-lines, as The Big House did. Walter Huston plays the warden humanly and sensibly, although at times he has trouble making the dialog sound real. Best minor part: DeWitt Jennings as an extremely cruel guard...
...America: William James Mayo, Howard Atwood Kelly, John Miller Turpin Finney, George Washington Crile, Joseph Colt Bloodgood, Dean DeWitt Lewis, Maude Slye, Aldred Scott Warthin, George Edward Pfahler, Evarts Ambrose Graham, Dallas Burton Phemister...
...Horrified bird lovers made him give it back. Since then subdued criticisms have been heard from time to time, occasional horrified ejaculations that a man with a gunner's heart had crept into the Society, was perverting its policies. Last year a pamphlet signed by the late W. DeWitt Miller, vice president of the New Jersey Audubon Society, berated large bird societies for neglecting their duties. These charges, to which President Pearson turned an indifferent ear, are the direct cause of the present...
Died. John Riegel Dewitt, 48, famed Princeton footballer and trackman, hero of the game in 1903 when Princeton beat Yale for the first time in four years; of heart failure, on the way to see a heart specialist, in the club car of his morning train from Fairneld, Conn, to Manhattan...
After an effort of eleven years (to the day), and with no great regrets, the Treasury Department last week passed national Prohibition enforcement over to the Department of Justice. Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell, as enforcer-in-chief of the Volstead Act, thus became the Dry Hope of Prohibitors, including President Hoover, who believed that only by effective coordination, under one head, of investigation and prosecution of liquor violators could the law be fully enforced (TIME, Jan. 27). The Secretary of the Treasury retained his pre-Prohibition powers over permits for industrial alcohol. When his Treasury post of Prohibition Commissioner...