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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robert Beecher Howell, Nebraska's pince-nezzed junior Senator, continued last week as Prohibition's bravest champion. Having complained that the District of Columbia is a pretty wet spot which the President of the U. S., as chief District officer, might easily dry, up and having elicited a White House statement ("The President is glad the Senator has raised the question") asking for specific charges (TIME, Sept. 30). Senator Howell arose again and said: ''It seems to me that the President was a little unfair . . . to call upon me 'to state definite facts, with time...
Responsible for Prohibition prosecutions in the District of Columbia is District Attorney Leo A. Rover. Part of the Brookhart outburst was an offer to tell Mr. Rover, before a grand jury, all that Senator Brookhart knows or has heard about Wet Washington. Mr. Rover called at the Prohibition Bureau to see if there was sufficient evidence to warrant grand jury procedure. Mr. Rover said he would be "very glad" to have Senator Brookhart testify, but with everyone bearing in mind the motto "No more crusades," it seemed certain no great amount of evidence would be found, that any steps toward...
...Square early yesterday afternoon, Lawrence B. Cohen, Jr., a Sophomore, President of the Socialist Club, was arrested for violating a city ordinance, brought to the Brattle Square police station, divested of his batch of hand-hills, and finally set at liberty, after being promised a summons to the Third District Court, East Cambridge, for next Thursday...
...Nowhere in the world, not even in the famous Valley of Death in California, is there such a forbidding, barren district as this, where water is of even greater value than gold and which is strewn with the bones of cattle and camels which perished from thirst...
...banks in the state of New York,* the Ma rine Midland Corp.'s sponsors will make a public offering of stock to finance a $25,000,000 subsidiary bank to be known as the Marine Trust Co. of the City of New York and located in the financial district. While no announcement was made of how much stock would be sold to the public, trading in Marine Midland commenced on the New York Produce Exchange, the stock selling at more than 20 points over the rumored offering price of $60 per share...