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...President receives abundant advice. Last week Missouri's representative Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer, No. 2 Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee, urged the President to declare for 2.75% beer as a Prohibition solution. The President shunted beer to the deep-bottomed repository of the Wickersham committee...
Though the House obediently passed this legislation without major change, Wets raised their usual cry that Prohibition was responsible for filling the U. S. penitentiaries,* taunted the Drys with their pre-Prohibition claim that the 18th would empty the jails. Representative Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer of Missouri, potent member of the Judiciary Committee, who ten years ago wrote the interstate automobile theft act to break up organized car-stealing, decried the use of his law by judges to jail young violators...
...Last fiscal yar the U.S. jailed 11,192 convicts. Largest class: dry law violators, 3,389. Other imprisonment: 2,234 under Harrison Narcotic Act; 1,515 under Dyer Automobile Theft Act; 903 under postal laws; 236 under Mann...
...site of the exploratory holes, provincial geologists claimed the entire district for the Ontario government, to prevent land speculating. Chief geologist W. S. Dyer estimated that the newly discovered lignite could be profitably marketed at from $5 to $6 a ton, exclusive of freight...
...Colgate); second, Kastler (Penn); third, MacDonald (Yale). Time--21 9-10 sec. Second heat--won by Wildermuth (Georgetown); second, Wehner (Southern California); third, Morin (Holy Cross). Time-21 8-10 sec. Third heat--won by Engle (Yale); second, Harwood (Syracuse); third, Mason. Time--22 sec. Fourth heat--won by Dyer (Stanford); second, Sacks (Penn); third, Gill (Yale). Time...