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Great Britain has too large a navy and too much influence in the world of commerce to allow the enforcement of prohibition with its attending harshness to pass off as a good joke, as the Siamese Legation found it expedient to do. Several years ago Great Britain waived certain rights of the high seas to the American Government in recognizing the twelve-mile limit and in permitting the American coast guard cutters to enforce the laws of their country in the waters about Bermuda and Jamaica. But they did not include the right to sink ships that are flying...
...great in the law. They took to President Hoover their knowledge, experience and advice for his law enforcement investigation. A trained engineer about to sink a new shaft in quest of buried facts, the President plotted his operation cautiously. Six or nine worthy men had first to be found, men without passion or prejudice on prohibition. Their descent must be well charted-where to break ground, how far down to go, what machinery to use to bring up the ugly ore of crime...
...Vice President, as he had expected, found that the Florida sun helped the rheumatism from which he suffered...
Cinema stars are seldom good mathematicians. Confronted with the U. S. income tax, many of them are reduced to flabby incompetence. They journey across the U. S. from Hollywood to "fix things up" personally at the Treasury Department. That grey classic building, they have found, affords a new and unusual background for "still" pictures of themselves on business bent. Last year Secretary Mellon's department had the honor of professional calls from Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Richard Barthelmess...
...conduct was "reprehensible" in the findings of special-Assistant-to-the-Attorney-General Pierce Butler Jr., son of Associate Justice Butler of the U.S. Supreme Court, who last week finished a thoroughgoing review of the Barnett case. Mr. Butler found: 1) the Interior Department had no power to give away Barnett's wealth; 2) the U. S. could sue to annul Barnett's marriage to Anna Laura Lowe; 3) suits to recover Barnett's wealth were justified; 4) nobody had been guilty of criminal conspiracy or fraud...