Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McCarl report did not charge malfeasance, but President Hoover straight way ordered Attorney-General Mitchell to discover whether there had been any violation of the law. The President was careful to point out that all the instances cited were "prior to this Administration." As many citizens recall, President Coolidge was constantly prodding the U. S. Shipping Board to get rid of this floating white elephants...
...Appeals at Philadelphia, the Kirkpatrick decision was reversed and Broker Norris exonerated. More, the U. S. was flayed in a decision which said: "It appears that while the legislative department of the Government has deliberately and intentionally made the purchaser of liquor guiltless of any offense under the Prohibition law, the executive department of the government seeks here, by indirection, to make the same fact, namely the purchase, a crime subjecting the purchasers to a maximum fine of $10,000 and imprisonment for a term of two years...
...getting elected and being the President, Mr. Hoover had many times promised to consolidate the enforcement and prosecuting arms of the Federal Prohibition forces in one Department of the Government. Now, six months after Inauguration, nothing has been done. Congress was too busy last spring. The nine-man Law Enforcement Commission under Lawyer George Woodward Wickersham has been too busy fact-finding. And the 'President had to admit that there is no one now in his administration either free or capable enough to effect the transfer of the Treasury's enforcement bureau to the Department of Justice...
...Sitting in his royally red chair, he pokes with his cane and his innuendos, rumbles and whispers, enchants his family with the great white droop of his head, the flash of his cavernous eyes. In an adept supporting cast, Fred Tiden is outstanding as the finical son-in-law who cannot bear to have small children tumbling about him. The children are never seen except as his nervous fingers betray their insuperability...
...juice, and his evenings trying to clear his chambers of pesky women. One of these vampires marries him while they are both in an alcoholic stupor. A second slinks dangerously in and out until murdered by a third. The wife nobly assumes the guilt, is exonerated under the unwritten law, and leaves her husband with the sobbing little murderess. Conceived by a vaudeville actress, Winnie Baldwin, this pastiche of variety show emotions and humors succeeds in being very elaborate balderdash...