Word: howelis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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To the White House last week went men 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...
Third to say his say was Silas Hardy Strawn of Chicago, onetime (1927-28) President of the American Bar Association and a conspicuous member of Chicago's Crime Commission, warned Mr. Hoover against commissioning professional prohibitors to make investigations. Said Mr. Strawn: "Prohibition . . . cannot be enforced by making more...
Secondly, it might seem impossible to devise a satisfactory way of betting on the British General Election as a whole, because the result may leave any one of the three parties or any two of them in power. Theoretically, should a roughly equal number of seats be won by each...
From the first day of his illness Marshal Foch demanded and received from all his doctors the minutest account of what was to be fought and how. Unlike His Majesty George V, who did not bring himself to chew and swallow solid food while his royal appetite was in abeyance...
Undaunted the rebels opened at No. 66 Beaver St., Manhattan, an office which was called a' "consulate" by the. self-styled "Consul," Señor A. Jiminez. When reporters dropped in, the Consul assured them that merchandise shipped from the U.S. to Sonora and other states controlled by the...