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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pleased with the Mills plan, pleased with additional thousands of suggestions brought forward by his contest, Mr. Durant sent his check to Major Mills with a letter of congratulation. Federal prohibition authorities, however, saw in the Mills plan no millennium. James M. Doran, chief U. S. prohibiter, disagreed with the major premise concerning diverted alcohol as the source of "98%" of bootleggers' supplies. He said that the chief source of illegal liquor is the distillation of corn sugar. He added that measures advocated by Major Mills are now "routine practices" in the Prohibition Bureau, described the Mills plan...
...tycoons of today have built winter mansions and game preserves. The Penney estate at Belle Isle, though it views Miami's skyscrapers across Biscayne Bay, is as secluded as any nest that a pirate ever made for himself on Bimimi or the Dry Tortugas. The late Henry M. Flagler, founder of Florida's perpetual youth, was not the first modern tycoon to visit the Southeast and his railroad and hotels meant more to the commonalty than to Mr. Flagler's fellow rich men. The real pioneers of Tycoon's Coast were the group that formed...
Whalen Days. Bandits entered a Brooklyn home near midnight, four men were killed in resultant battle. At 3 a. m. appeared Commissioner Whalen, "worked on the case" till 8 a. m. He then attended 9 o'clock mass in Manhattan. He then reviewed 800 Postal Telegraph boys at City Hall. He then went to the West 20th Street station on another murder case. He then accompanied his daughter on a gallop through Central Park. He then went home (No. 43 Fifth Avenue), slept...
...M. Reed belongs to the anti-Curtis faction in Kansas politics...
There the Emperor Napoleon sent the Empress Josephine to pass a quiet spell. Later her very room was occupied by M. Paul Deschanel, who grew slightly demented after he had been President of France (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926)." When great M. ReneéViviani came to the U. S. as High Commissioner with Marshall Joffre in 1915, few surmised that this onetime Prime Minister of France would soon be immured at Malmaison. Last week however all France knew-and laughed in the knowledge-that M. Le Senateur Louis Klotz, onetime Finance Minister in the Clemenceau War Cabinet...