Word: lax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was the story which last week bubbled to the surface of Prohibition news. Charges were made that the U. S. Customs service at New York was lax and incompetent. The Pratt champagne case was cited as proof. The yeast behind the bubbling was, of course, Politics. Against Mr. Pratt were these undenied charges: He had arranged to pay the Go-Bart Co. of New York $14,000 to smuggle in $25,000 worth of champagne purchased in France. The U. S. agent for the champagne was Count Maxence de Polignac, member of one of France's oldest noble...
...best of his ability. His main feats are saving the remains of a rapidly degenerating Hapsburg Empire through the medium of his mercenary soldiers, insulting an emperor and jilting an arch-duchess, marrying a gypsy girl (the trait seems to run in the family) with a rather lax set of morals, destroying the Hapsburg Empire again, dispensing with the gypsy accoutrements, reinsulting the emperor, falling in love with the afore-mentioned jilted arch-duchess, winning her, and finally, to cap an excellent picture, restoring the Hapsburgs, leaving them there...
...Plan. Almost since the day he took office Attorney General Mitchell has been training himself eventually to become Prohibition's Enforcer-in-Chief. With the solid backing of the U. S. Drys, Consolidated, he has sifted out his U. S. district attorneys, dismissing the lax, appointing only those who will press the Volstead Act up to the hilt. From his own Minnesota he called into service Gustav Aaron Youngquist as Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition & Taxation, successor to Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt (TIME, Nov. 11). If and when the transfer occurs, Mr. Youngquist will probably take over...
...work on which so much stress is supposedly laid in the apportionment of honors, the administration of this group of examinations is remarkably lax. The present year offers two particularly apt examples of this, with no assurance that the efficiency will be any greater next year. The plan of holding these examinations for Seniors in the fall instead of the spring was an improvement, but unfortunately the benefit to be derived from it is much diminished by the veil of mystery that hangs over the examinations. On the one side, Seniors should be notified early in September of the exact...