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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months ago, worn, tired, looking at least ten years older, Mrs. Willebrandt resigned her office. Her division, with 100 assistants, was the Department's largest. Close to 10,000 U. S. agents (Prohibition, Customs, Coast Guard) were in the field and at sea working to enforce Prohibition, on Congressional appropriations of approximately $20,000,000 per year. Arrests averaged 75,000 per year, with about 70,000 cases turned over to Mrs. Willebrandt for prosecution. Government was getting convictions in about 75% of the cases tried. Instead of dwindling on the horizon as a political and moral issue, Prohibition...
Last fall Her Royal Highness journeyed into chill Ireland to the famed Belfast shipyards of Harland & Wolff especially to honor the White Star Line. She understood that they were going to build the largest ocean liner in the world, the gargantuan Oceanic of 60,000 tons. Graciously and with appropriate pomp Princess Mary inaugurated work on the Oceanic's 1,000-ft. backbone, or keel...
...officials would have on their hands not an asset but a debit. Clearly the Bremen has started an international speed war between all lines. At Belfast last week potent Shipwrights Harland & Wolff understood that Baron Kylsant would demand that they build for the White Star Line not only the largest but the fastest liner in the world...
...will be very much larger and faster than anything afloat today. The plans are now being completed. The date for the laying of her keel has not been set, but we know about all the other ships and we are certain that ours will be both the largest and the fastest...
...thrashed out between Soong and Chiang, the banker's principal grievance had to do with the conqueror's reluctance to cut down Nanking's stupendous military forces. Today Nationalist China has the largest standing army in the world, though by no means the most effective. A rabble nearly 1,500,000 strong are the soldiers of Nationalism, nondescript, ill-drilled, often ragged. Some of their commanders are hired bandit chieftains, others are feudal "War Lords" left over from previous regimes. The cream are spruce, young, "intellectual" Nationalist generals. But the whole motley gang have costly appetites...