Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Omaha citizens were amazed. The City Prosecutor doubted whether the State law permitted U. S. agents to "go about stopping reputable citizens because they have a package under their arm." Hearing that the charge might be dismissed without trial, William McD. Rowan, U. S. Prohibition Administrator in Omaha rushed to his agents defense. Said he: "Just because a millionaire is arrested there is an awful stink. . . . We treat the rich and poor alike...
...summer days by the Senate Finance Committee, became more than a domestic matter when 43 protests against its high rates were filed with the U. S. State Department by the diplomatic representatives of 25 countries. Collectively, politely, the protests told the U. S. that increased tariff schedules might prove injurious to that expansion of U. S. foreign trade so anxiously desired by President Hoover...
...American International Airways (U. S.) sent its flagplane Southern Star down the west coast from Panama to Santiago, demonstrating to Latin-Americans that an-other U. S. line might compete in that territory...
Federal Radio Commission reconsidered. Month ago, it changed its plans, ordered that one public utility press corporation be formed through which all member news companies might send their news. To the new company would be allocated 30 transoceanic channels immediately, plus 20 transcontinental channels so soon as "need" was shown for them. All newspapers, all press associations could subscribe to the corporation's stock...
...poet, put a valedictory damnation on legislation which seeks to govern "what we may or may not eat or drink, as to how we may dress, as to our religious beliefs or as to what we may or may not read." In an exhortation which without his rising preamble might have sounded crass at an American Medical Convention, he cried: "This is no longer republican government. It is tyranny. In the long run we English-speaking people will not endure tyranny." His general denunciation of sumptuary legislation was, of course, received as a specific condemnation of Prohibition.* It reverberated throughout...