Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ It cost $782,408,753 to carry last year's mails, of which about $560,000,000 went as pay to approximately 274,000 postal employes. For this service the public paid $696,947,577 to the Post Office Department, made up an $85,000,000 deficit indirectly through...
Governor Harvey Parnell of Arkansas, scandalized at the revelations, promised to send investigators to the Ozarks. Said he: "If those hill barons enforce peonage, there are federal statutes to punish them."
Vainly had the defense objected: "A lawyer can't cross-examine a mechanical robot. The film could have been cut ... the voice faked. We will take this case to the Supreme Court if necessary."
Prime enforcer of Prohibition is Commissioner James M. Doran. Proudly his wife tells friends that she "brings up the reinforcements." Last week she marshaled a platoon of reinforcements in the form of recipes for nonalcoholic cocktails. She had prepared a Book of Juices to meet the onslaught of the "winter...
Judge Woodrough found the two distillers not guilty. He opined that the agents could enter a house without warrant only if they actually saw the felons at work. Said he: "The entry into the dwelling house and the search of it were unjustifiable and illegal . . . therefore I have ordered the...