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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During Mrs. Willebrandt's tenure of office, the Prohibition & Taxation division of the Department of Justice grew from the smallest to the largest. President Hoover contemplates making it even larger by adding to its prosecution of dry cases the major job, now performed by the Treasury, of actual field enforcement of the Volstead Act. Lately the President set his friend, John L. McNab, to plotting out a system whereby this transfer and consolidation within the Department of Justice may be effected (TIME, Oct. 14). If and when such a plan becomes operative, Mr. Youngquist will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Dry Hope | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Then while the Vagabond was waiting to start on the royal road to romance for his glorious adventure, the nation's watchful press jumped on the job. Reporters from one of the great American journals got word of the matter. And it did not take long for these mighty and powerful servants of the public to find a nefarious British plot back of the entire excursion--subsidiary of the undergraduate press...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

...second time that Mr. Mitchell had arrived in Manhattan on the wings of panic. He took his first Manhattan job (with Trust Co. of America) just in time to cope with the Panic of 1907. He arrived home from Europe last week, just in time to utter bullish reassurances on the eve of the crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bankers v. Panic | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Exacting, sometimes exhausting, is the job of editing a national magazine. Editor Merle Crowell, head of the American Magazine since 1923, last week decided to obey long-disobeyed doctor's orders. He resigned his editorship, planned a long rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: CrowelPs Crowell | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...center of the Eli line was doing a beautiful job all afternoon just where the Harvard line had failed most conspicuously. It will be a sad story for the Crimson on the afternoon of November 23 if the line doesn't stiffen up, for getting Booth in an open field is some different from stopping him on the line of scrimmage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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