Word: hards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago's Crime Commission, warned Mr. Hoover against commissioning professional prohibitors to make investigations. Said Mr. Strawn: "Prohibition . . . cannot be enforced by making more drastic laws such as the Jones Act. The opinion of the American people must support the law. . . . How this can be brought about is hard to say." Last and most august came Chief Justice Taft, to discuss with President Hoover the U. S. Courts and their relation to the problem of law enforcement. Long has the Chief Justice been troubled by the decline of criminal justice. Having set his own high court at the Capitol...
...Senator from Kansas, Charles Curtis had fun, but not so much as other Senators. He worked hard, attended regularly, and after the death of Henry Cabot Lodge (1924) he became the G.O.P.'s busy Senate housekeeper. Now that he is Vice President, with high official rank and no official cares except to listen to the Senate when it is sitting and to hope for the health of President Hoover, things are different. Last week he slipped off to Miami Beach to "rest" and really have fun, his first real spree in years...
...them for a long time on the richly embroidered Banner of all the Allied Nations, which hung above his head. Sometimes too he would call for his baton-the baton of a Marshal of France-and with the tips of his old fingers would caress along the shaft the hard and prickly stars...
...Daytona Beach, Fla., in front of a crowd kept in safety by marshals, some newsreel photographers pointed their cameras last week at the snouted White Triplex car roaring toward them at 202 m. p. h. over the hard sand. The car swerved. Driver Lee Bible lost control. The car somersaulted prodigiously toward the cameras. When it lay still, Driver Bible, thrown far away, and one of the photographers, a big fellow named Charles Traub, crushed by three tons of pitchpoling steel, were dead. The film of the accident, complete in Traub's camera, went out at once to Pathe...
...three-week period of hard spring football practice does not find favor with Coach Jackson Cannell of Dartmouth, according to an address he delivered to the 90 Green aspirants who assembled to discuss the prospects for next fall's season...