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...June evening that the Democrats of the land were nominating New York's wet Governor for President, those whose duty it is to enforce Prohibition in the land consummated a multilateral raid, said to be the result of months of preparation, on 18 of New York City's flashiest, dashiest, most expensive nightclubs (TIME, July 9). Last week, 45 more of the district's 20,000-odd nightclubs and speakeasies were proceeded against. Also, last week, the persons made defendants by the first raids were indicted. The Federal activity began to spread to roadhouses in New York...
Curious things happen to wings in certain positions, owing to such demoniac conflicts as those of suction on the upper surfaces and pressure on the lower. The adjustment must be delicate or nose-dives and involuntary tailspins result. Slotted areas in the wing, allowing air to pass through, seem to have a kindly, stabilizing effect. Thus aviation's newest safety device is called the wing slot. Technical journals still use "probably" and "theoretically" in referring...
...seldom nowadays that distinguished lawyers are criminal lawyers. The big fees and the prestige result from study and practice of corporation law, estate law, banking law and to a less extent divorce law. Criminal law is a subject left to the unscrupulous shyster, the political heeler, the occasional social reformer or great charlatan or utter cynic. It has been remarkable, therefore, to watch the increasing emphasis which the American Bar Association has felt it should lay, at its distinguished annual conventions, upon the criminal tendencies and condition of the land. It has made laymen wonder whether there is any relation...
...Masonic Temple, where the convention held its sessions, the exposition was placed on the ground floor. Here could be seen, in 300 booths, the result of the enterprise of 225 individual exhibitors. Newssheets, manufacturers, magazines, cinema companies, mechanical contrivances were brought to the attention of the advertising men. Upstairs the convention functioned, deciding among other things, that despite the advantages of radio advertising, newspaper and magazines were still the best mediums for comprehensive campaigns; next to newspapers, magazines. On the last day of their convention, they selected Minneapolis, after many words in favor of Berlin, as the scene of next...
...Racket. Thomas Meighan is the police captain. Louis Wolheim, of What Price Glory, is the bootlegging gang leader. Marie Prevost is the cabaret girl. "Skeets" Gallagher is a reporter. The result is the fastest moving, most convincing of the recent parade of rum-revolver-racket films...