Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harding Administration. "It would be difficult to find two years of peacetime history in all the record of our republic that were marked with more important and far-reaching accomplishments. From my position as President of the Senate, and in my attendance upon the sessions of the Cabinet, I thus came into possession of a very wide knowledge of the details of the Government...
...bail required in all liquor cases before Federal Commissioners. 3) Trucking firms who have been transporting liquor to foreign embassies in Washington were told to cease; only actual diplomats in actual diplomatic automobiles may transport liquor. 4) Seven men arrested in Manhattan on March 4 waited last week to find out the hour and minute of Calvin Coolidge's signing the Jones Act-hoping it was signed at least one minute after their arrests-but Attorney-General Mitchell announced that anyone caught that day would be tried under the Jones Act. 5) The bootleggers of Washington, D.C., frightened...
...Writers of stones for boys succeed only when they make up the kind of stories that boys would make up if they could make up stories. Somehow the adventures of one Mickey Bennett when he is sent to be kidnaped so as to enable a detective, trailing him, to find another kid kidnaped by the same gang, has the right flavor in spite of its slow movement and the extraordinary stupidity of the criminals. Hero Bennett, 12, uses to advantage certain metallic mots by Harriet Ford and the late Harvey O'Higgins. "You win the ten thousand dollars reward...
...else-have finished with one aspect, another bobs up. "It is impossible for any one to take account of all three at the same time and it is not in the province of the experts [of the Second Dawes Committee] to do so. They are trying simply to find a solution for the political aspect and part of the financial one. "They are all aware every moment that the economic aspect may any day within the next 60 years upset all their calculations...
...England of the only other book of its kind in English, Marie Carmichael Slopes's Contraception: its Theory, History and Practice. In German Dr. Alfred Grotjahn, professor of social hygiene at the University of Berlin, has published two monumental books on the subject, but it is almost impossible to find copies of them...