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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sheppard Amendment reached no vote, became no law. It was referred to the Judiciary Committee, appeared unlikely to reappear during the present Congressional session. But it precipitated a storm of dispute among Drys as well as Wets. The Wets, of course, flayed the idea as a further encroachment on Liberty, a further botching of a bad law. They said it would make millions of additional criminals, fill jails beyond the bursting point. Drys were divided in their opinion. Bishop James Cannon Jr. and Senator Watson of Indiana were favorable. Such potent Drys as Idaho's Borah and Nebraska...
...people of New York City will elect a mayor. Outstanding issue in the campaign has been the year-old Rothstein murder case (TIME, Dec. 24) with accompanying charges of laxity and corruption in the present Tammany administration, headed by re-election-seeking Mayor James John Walker. Last fortnight, New Yorkers were surprised to hear that George A. McManus, labelled by the police as The-Man-Who-Killed-Rothstein, would be brought to trial on Oct. 15. Last week New Yorkers were disappointed to hear that the trial had been postponed to Nov. 12. For, said Judge Charles C. Nott...
...unjust: competition." By that he meant the fact that all Philippine products are admitted to the U. S. duty free. Under the Payne-Aldrich Tariff of 1909 free sugar imports from the Islands were limited to 300,000 tons yearly. Later this restriction was removed. During hearings on the present tariff bill an attempt was made to restore it. This movement was blocked through the influence of Secretary of State Stimson, who, a onetime (1927-29) Philippine governor, said that a tax on Philippine sugar would ruin the Islands. The sugar Senators, arguing chiefly to impress their sugar-growing constituents...
Stimson's Stag. Spacious Woodley, home of Secretary of State Stimson, was the last place where Prime Minister clasped hands with President. Two hours previously they had formally farewelled at the White House, but Mr. Hoover slipped over to his Secretary's stag dinner. No socialites were present as such. Most of the stags were potent Congressmen and Senators of both parties, including Senatorial floor leaders Robinson (Dem.) and Watson (Rep.). Sound meat for conversation was a joint declaration issued earlier in the day by Stags Hoover and MacDonald, momentously summing the results of their conversations...
...wives used to give evening parties where the poor military guests suffered in garotte collars weighed down with gold trolley cable. It soon came to be said that anything unpleasant was as bad as a "soiree." From this one can see readily the evolution of the word to its present meaning. Other expressions such as "Sammy," "spoony," "B.J.," and "B.S." have developed from just as obscure origins...