Word: f
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Progress of the President's proposed transformation, of Washington from one of the wetter to quite the driest of cities in the land: last week John F. J. Herbert. Prohibition Administrator at Baltimore, whose territory included the District of Columbia, was transferred to Helena, Mont. His assistant, John Joseph Quinn, was suspended pending investigation of charges against him. To Baltimore was shifted Administrator Thomas Elijah Stone, top-notcher, credited with abating Detroit's huge liquor influx from Canada...
...Gomez Signed a city ordinance forbidding the use of rear view mirrors in taxicabs. Citizens had complained that cab drivers were using the mirrors for "the impudent eyeing of the pulchritude and behavior of passengers." Safe therefore from the impudent eyes of Cuban cabdrivers was U. S. Ambassador Harry F. Guggenheim, who last week presented his credentials to President Gerardo Machado as successor to Ex-Ambassador Col. Noble Brandon Judah...
Died. Grant B. Miller, Chief U. S. Postal Inspector, who solved many a mail theft, including the $2,000,000 robbery at Rondout, Ill., in 1924 when Postal In spector William F. Fahy was revealed as the crime's "master-mind"; at Washing...
...Members of the Pennsylvania League of Women Voters were affronted at their convention in Pittsburgh last week when Manhattan's Dr. James F. Cooper urged them to "have children by choice, not by chance." fMrs. Sanger, Chairman of the Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control, was busy at Columbus, Ohio, last week, arguing for permissive Ohio laws, at least for the canceling of inhibitive laws...
...officials of the Freshman dormitory committees who are the student members of the temporary executive council are as follows: Smith Halls--M. C. Kirkbride '33, Albert Pratt '33; Standish Hall--R. G. Coburn, Jr. '33, B. F. Newcomb, Jr. '33; McKinlock Hall--L. A. Francisco '33, C. C. Pell, Jr. '33; Gore Hall--C. P. Lewis '33, W. B. Osborne...