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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following this so excellent example, the modern world is putting its best foot forward in an attempt to emulate Biblical heroes. Weird psychie phenomena such as Sir Oliver Lodge has been known to demonstrate are often considered on a par with Daniel's interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's dream or with the handwriting on the wall. Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. Moreover, by directing with much success and grandeur the crossing of the Red Sea, Cecil De Mille claims recognition as having out-manoeuvered Moses...
When, four months ago, William Crapo Durant, motorcar maker, announced that he would give $25,000 for the best plan submitted on Prohibition enforcement, no fewer than 23,230 competitors rushed forward with suggestions. Came a plan from a general in the Brazilian army. Came plans from African, Asiatic, Oceanic missionaries; from Connecticut tobacco-chewers, from Pittsburgh gin-millers. Came plans from "sorrowing mother," "drunkard's widow," "rum runner's deserted wife." Came also a plan from Major Chester Paddock Mills, onetime (1926-27) Prohibition Administrator for the New York City district. Last week the awarding committee, headed...
Pleased with the Mills plan, pleased with additional thousands of suggestions brought forward by his contest, Mr. Durant sent his check to Major Mills with a letter of congratulation. Federal prohibition authorities, however, saw in the Mills plan no millennium. James M. Doran, chief U. S. prohibiter, disagreed with the major premise concerning diverted alcohol as the source of "98%" of bootleggers' supplies. He said that the chief source of illegal liquor is the distillation of corn sugar. He added that measures advocated by Major Mills are now "routine practices" in the Prohibition Bureau, described the Mills plan...
Either grant to India full and free Dominion Status before Dec. 31, 1929; or from that day forward the Congress will declare a non-violent but absolute boycott of British goods, British officials, British schools, and British taxes...
...change to which newspaperdom had been looking forward with curiosity and not without anxiety, for weeks. Some said that with Swope gone the World would feel like a face with all its teeth pulled. A light would be extinguished that nobody else could kindle. There was only one Swope...