Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ready to increase its border force under this proposal from a scant 1,000 to 10,000 men. It would likewise consolidate its four patrol forces?customs, Prohibition, coast guard, immigration?into one service to guard the border between ports of entry...
...straggled through snow storms to Minot, N. Dak., then to Great Falls, Mont. From Spokane, their terminal, they received bleak news. Weather there had inopportunely moderated. The ski-shod planes needed snow or thick ice for landing. Spokane had neither, temporarily, last week. Major Ralph Royce, leader of the patrol, declared the flight probably the most difficult and hazardous undertaken by a peacetime Army squadron...
Numerous suggestions have been made to relieve the congestion of the courts and generally to repair and lubricate the entire machinery of enforcement, while the thrifty Mr. Mellon has long advocated a revision of the Border laws with an increase in the size of the patrol. But all these recommendations, though necessary as parallel measures of reform, fail to strike to the heart of the problem, and serve only to strengthen the impression that the Commission has somehow evaded the issue...
...Cruising off Newport, R. I. one night last week, a coast guard patrol boat leveled its searchlight on a dark, low hull bearing the number C-5677. Guardsmen, recognizing the liquor-runner-suspect Black Duck shouted stop orders. When the Black Duck veered to speed away, guardsmen opened fire, killed three suspected smugglers, wounded a fourth...
President Hoover called in Senators Harris and Borah, soothed them with kind words. Chairman George Woodward Wickersham announced that his commission's report on "Law Enforcement" was ready. Undersecretary of the Treasury Mills plotted out a scheme of enforcement improvements whereby the coast guard and the border patrol would be unified, the number of ports of entry along the border reduced. From the White House emanated intimations of more shakeups, further reorganizations, in the enforcement service; of the President's putting U. S. district attorneys on their mettle. Senator Sheppard of Texas, author of the 18th Amendment, dusted...