Word: rum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of State Hughes published some correspondence that he has been having with the Canadian Government through the British Embassy in Washington. Mr. Hughes has been trying (with indifferent success) to secure Canada's coöperation in preventing border rum-smuggling...
March 7, Secretary Hughes wrote Sir Auckland Geddes, British Ambassador, asking whether the Canadian Government was disposed to cooperate to prevent rum running...
July 16, the British Chargé d'Affaires replied for the Canadian Government that it was already giving the American authorities information on rum shipments and would be glad "to receive at Ottawa a representative of the United States Government, with a view to discussing the possible ways and means of furnishing additional assistance...
...customs service will not take advantage of the ruling to seize rum runners beyond the three-mile limit. It will await a final ruling from the Supreme Court rather than attempt a practice now which is sure to evoke diplomatic protests...
...progress of the negotiations by which Secretary Hughes is trying to secure treaties with foreign powers to allow their vessels to enter American ports with liquor under seal in exchange for the privilege of extending the three-mile limit to twelve miles for the search and seizure of rum-runners...