Word: leos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Responsible for Prohibition prosecutions in the District of Columbia is District Attorney Leo A. Rover. Part of the Brookhart outburst was an offer to tell Mr. Rover, before a grand jury, all that Senator Brookhart knows or has heard about Wet Washington. Mr. Rover called at the Prohibition Bureau to see if there was sufficient evidence to warrant grand jury procedure. Mr. Rover said he would be "very glad" to have Senator Brookhart testify, but with everyone bearing in mind the motto "No more crusades," it seemed certain no great amount of evidence would be found, that any steps toward...
...Packard, Jr., W. E. Hocking '01, Ralph Barton Perry, A. M. Schlesinger, A. T. Davison '06, Joseph Redlich, B. F. Wright, Jr. '22, G. D. Birkhoff '04, E. L. Chaffee '11, A. N. Holcombe, C. J. Frederick, Andre Morize, George Sarton, J. D. Black, L. O. Cummings '09, Leo Weiner, E. S. Mason, Edward Ballantine '04, Mason Hammond '25, Zechariah Chafee, Jr., J. J. Ryan '21, Langdon Warner '03, J. A. McLaughlin, H. W. Brinkman '24, C. R. Spruill, W. D. Templeton, F. D. Scott, M. W. Royse, P. W. Gates, J. A. Ross, F. W. McVeagh...
Then up rose Mrs. Watson and Mrs. Leo R. C. Mitchell to meet Big Helen Wills and Edith Cross. Never was there a clearer demonstration that doubles play is a different game from singles, a game about which Big Helen Wills still has a lot to learn. The English ladies...
Fashions in Love (Paramount). Like all plays good enough to be imitated but not good enough to be classics, The Concert by Herman Bahr, presented long ago on the legitimate stage by Leo Ditrichstein, has been discredited by inept adaptations of some of its best effects. Fashions in Love is the screen name for The Concert. By any name it remains a very good farce. It is concerned with the marital infidelities of an elderly and temperamental pianist whose wife gets him back by the not wholly startling method of pretending to be in love with the husband...
Endurance Attempts. At Los Angeles, Leo Nomis and Maurice Morrison in a Cessna (TIME, July 8) had their motor fail, landed with a crash after 42 hr. 5 min. in the air. Another Los Angeles plane, the Buhl Angeleno, last week started up for the endurance record. Flyers were Loren W. Mendell, R. B. Reinhart...