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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prohibition. Minister Massey delivered to Statesman Stimson Canada's formal note of protest against the sinking of the Canadian registered rumrunner I'm Alone, sunk by U. S. Coast Guards men 200 miles off the Louisiana coast (TIME, April 1, et seq.}. Statesman Stim son described the epistle as "temperate and conciliatory." He sat himself down to prepare a reply...
Simultaneously the Department of Justice, in New Orleans, released Capt. John Thomas Randall and the crew of the I'm Alone from a charge of conspiracy. The U. S. found it had "insufficient evidence" for conviction. Captain Randall talked of a $250,000 damage suit against the U. S. for the loss of his ship and its liquor cargo...
...ernment permitted U. S. agents to stand on the Windsor, Ont., liquor export docks as a means of checking rum-running to Detroit, which cut the flow to" the low ebb of 500 cases per day. This, Canada considered, was part of "neighborly co operation," whereas the I'm Alone case involved a major international principle...
...years Coolidge economy was the prime raw material for the japes of Washington newsmen's famed Gridiron Club. Last week at the club's spring dinner, new material offered itself for roasting- Hoover Efficiency. From 7:30 p. m. to 12:30 a. m. the 50 active club members entertained the President, the Vice President, the Chief Justice, the Cabinet, foreign envoys and themselves with snappers, skits, topical songs. Burlesque, ridicule and sarcasm heaped upon the White House. President Hoover, who spoke, took all with great good grace...
...near upset the captain's gig, of which I was coxswain, by his skylarking! Look, he gave me his picture in an admiral's uniform." George V, still mindful of the fact that he was eleven years at sea with the Royal Navy, and once commanded H. M. S. Meiampus, wears his trousers creased down the side, sailor fashion, to this day (see cut). As a "midshipmite" he wore a smart sea jacket, carried a small ivory-handled dirk, emblem of the fact that he was neither an enlisted man nor yet an officer privileged to wear...