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Says Wassermann: Columbus was a poor administrator, a hopelessly lax disciplinarian. When his men had smoked so much tobacco they were unable to work, his reproof was mild. Said he: "What sort of satisfaction you can get from a sort of smouldering tube is more than I can understand." No land but gold was Columbus' quest: from his first voyage he brought back little, promises of much more. On his first return to Spain he was made, according to previous agreement, High Admiral of Spain, Viceroy of the Indies, given a coat of arms,* his family raised forever...
...behind the appointment was President Hoover's desire to make Washington "a model city," to answer repeated Congressional charges that liquor flowed unchecked, that narcotics were peddled under the shadow of the Capitol, that gambling joints and brothels ran wide open, all because the D. C. police were lax and corrupt. Declared President Hoover...
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...