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...last director, Major Alfred Vernon Dalrymple, went bitterly out of office with familiar charges of "duplicity, double-crossing and double-dealing" against his subordinates. The Prohibition Bureau ceased to exist legally when it was swallowed up by the Justice Department's new Division of Investigation under John Edgar Hoover. All 1,800 Dry agents were dismissed, 1,000 rehired. Postmaster General Farley solemnly announced that enforcement would continue as before until Repeal...
...socialite Junior League, she is no conservative social idler. An ardent liberal with Democratic leanings, she believes in a co-operative commonwealth and the utmost protection for consumers against industrial profiteering. To her board was appointed Professor William Fielding Ogburn, University of Chicago sociologist who worked on Herbert Hoover's mammoth social trends survey. When the board commenced computing costs of living and methods of keeping it down, Mrs. Rumsey and Professor Ogburn found themselves at sword's point. Mrs. Rumsey thought Professor Ogburn was too inclined to favor Industry. Professor Ogburn thought Mrs. Rumsey's anti...
...price of sugar. To supply the Allies with sugar during the War, Cuba became virtually a one-crop country, suffered terrific hardship when the sugar boom collapsed. In 1924 Conservatives and Liberals united to elect Gerardo Machado who was hailed as a "businessman President" much as was Herbert Hoover later. President Machado has cooperated actively in the Chadbourne Plan of world sugar crop restriction, but with U. S. tariffs soaring higher and higher against Cuban sugar the business of government in Havana became more and more that of preserving order among an impoverished and rebellious people by methods increasingly brutal...
Birthdays. Gifford Pinchot, 68; Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, 62; Herbert Hoover, 59; Dr. Hugo Eckener, 56; Nathalia Clara Ruth Abarbannel Crane...
...ambulance in France in 1915, learned to fly, served as Lieutenant in U. S. N. Air Service, broke his back, made a plucky recovery, launched upon a career of public service aboard a $4,500,000 endowment from his father, became Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics under President Hoover. When the Democratic landslide carried him out of the sub-Cabinet into the American Museum's presidency, his old interest in Africa snapped