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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...
...tower was the Foshay Tower in Minneapolis. Modelled after the Washington Monument, its 32 stories rise 447 ft. 3 in. above street level from a larger square base two stories in height. Last August when Secretary of War James William Good helped dedicate it, it was ecstatically dubbed the "Washington Monument of the Northwest...
...Louis two lawyers have put their skill at the disposal of two rodents-a common or Egyptian mongoose and a slightly larger water mongoose. The lawyers are Cleveland Alexander Newton, one-time (1919-27) Missouri Congressman, and Thomas Cobbs. What aroused them was the fact that the two mongooses, which resembled large nervous rats in their cages at the St. Louis Zoo, had been condemned to death by the U. S. Government. Reason: The Government forbids the importation of mongooses. Although they are valuable in India and Africa as snake destroyers, in the comparatively snakeless U. S. they would...
...folk songs and music of old folk dances, who started the group just before the dances died out in the country. Since then the interest in the Society has spread to the United States and organizations have been established as branches of the English one in many of the larger American cities. There are such groups in Boston, New York City, Cleveland, and Rochester...
Compared to this second design, the fantastic curtain revel-in fact the whole Chicago opera organization-becomes no more than Punch-&-Judy. Yet it is Punch-&-Judy on the very largest scale. To make the scale larger, the Chicago company is sent, in the Insull manner, all over the country on tours; not special engagements in a few big cultural capitals like Baltimore, Washington, Atlanta and Cleveland where Otto Hermann Kahn's Metropolitan goes; but country-wide expeditions-Boston, Buffalo, Columbus, Nashville, Birmingham, Jackson, Dallas. San Antonio, El Paso, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Fresno, Sacramento, Oakland. Amarillo, Tulsa, Lincoln...