Word: ladens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Said he: "It makes no difference what [clearance] regulations you have, because bootleggers will not register their vessels in any event. They are just as willing to ignore the navigation laws as they are the prohibition and customs laws. For the Canadian Government to refuse clearance papers to liquor laden vessels is the only restrictive measure that would have any real effect." There the international argument rested, temporarily...
...Florida last fortnight 25 banks failed. Causes: 1) Halterophora capitata; 2) aftermath of punctured land-booms; 3) gossip. Relative importance of these causes was difficult to determine. It appeared, however, that banks heavily laden with uncollectable land-boom notes found their debtors further handicapped by activities of Halterophora capitata. Exaggeration of conditions then produced disastrous bank runs. Deposits in the closed banks totaled more than...
...easy to picture a high official of the Canadian Government riding across the Detroit River in a launch laden with Canadian liquor and a crew of day-to-day rum-runners. Yet such was the picture actually described last week in the Canadian House of Commons at Ottawa by William D. Euler, Canada's Minister of National Revenue. The high official had been himself; the time, lately. His picture was as follows...
...these boats. The U. S. customs always are notified by us an hour or two before the boats leave and occasionally we notify them as the boats are leaving. . . . U. S. customs officials have requested the Canadian authorities to discontinue our daily telephone notifications of clearance of liquor-laden vessels and have asked them to mail them weekly notifications instead. . . . There should be more convincing proof that our neighbors are doing all they can to help themselves...
...great loss to the race. But in the last act, prisoned in the lacquered mansion of the dread Chang Kai Chang, the Hon. Nancy and "Chinese" O'Neill nearly meet their doom. At the last moment the adventurous Celt obtains a Colt, takes a pot shot at the munition-laden ships of Chang Kai Chang?"Master of the China Sea." He does not miss. He embraces the Hon. Nancy during a thunderous holocaust which signals the utter destruction of all their enemies...