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Naturally U. S. Wets were immoderately jubilant last week. But there are, after all, only 3,600,000 Finns. Making the most of this incontrovertible fact, Research Secretary Deets Pickett of the U. S. Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals released a press statement headed Little Finland vs. A World of Greed...
...Woodbury, Vt., one William Pickett was apprehended in possession of 60 fingerling trout (legal limit: 25 fish at least 6 in. long). His sentence, passed last week: 664 days in gaol...
...importance of air control in naval combat was last month clearly emphasized in the fleet's maneuvers off Haiti (TIME, March 24). Umpire of that theoretical conflict was Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder, whose criticisms of the Navy put him on the "waiting orders" list for months (TIME, Oct. 3, 1927). Scouting planes from the Lexington located the Saratoga and Langley just after daybreak while their flight decks were filled with aircraft. Admiral Magruder ruled that the Lexington planes damaged the Saratoga's flight deck which was later destroyed by bombers from the Lexington. Likewise the Langley...
Professional Prohibitors who last week put their views before the House committee were: Dr. Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League, Edwin Courtland Dinwiddie of the National Temperance Bureau, Elbert Deets Pickett of the Methodist Episcopal Church Board of Prohibition, Temperance & Public Morals, Canon William Sheafe Chase of the International Reform Federation, and Eugene L. Crawford of the Board of Temperance and Social Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. These witnesses were spared the ordeal of direct testimony and cross-examination by Wet committee members, when Chairman Graham, to save time, adjourned the hearing and permitted the witnesses...