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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...movement of diplomatic liquor from the Port of Baltimore to Washington's embassies and legations was badly snarled by the Five & Ten. The State Department ruled that non-diplomatic truck drivers were liable to be arrested, and advised foreign representatives to drive their own trucks. Sixty cases of fine wines and liquors consigned to the Siamese legation started the 4O-mile trip in a U. S. truck, with U. S. drivers, accompanied by Luang Debavadi, third secretary of the legation. A block from the destination, Washington police raided the truck, arrested the U. S. drivers under the Five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: The Five & Ten | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...that most notoriously moist common wealth, New York State, the Drys in the Assembly last week attempted to pass a State prohibition enforcement act. The Wets tipped it upside down by adding in committee a rider making it applicable only to liquor of more than 6% alcoholic content. Later the Assembly killed the whole measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: The Five & Ten | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...only protest against the Hoover oil policy came, ironically enough, from Montana's Senator Walsh, the dynamite who blew the oil scandals above ground. Some of his criticisms were: 1) the "wildcatter" whose enterprise developed the oil industry will be penalized; 2) the State of Montana would be "impoverished" by the loss of its one-third share of royalty oil revenue by the withdrawal of 20,000,000 acres of government land in that State alone from further exploitation. Senator Walsh beheld the "big interests" profiting by the Hoover order, and the small concerns operating on U.S. leases squeezed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSERVATION: U. S. Oil | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Every egg laid in Scotland after June 1, 1929, will be stamped with a national mark (see p. 21). Whether the mark shall read "Laid in Scotland" or "something more dignified" was weightily considered last week by His Majesty's Secretary of State for Scotland, fussy Sir John Gilmour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 'Third Class Eggs | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...Donna Barone, relict of the Fascist diplomat who began negotiations on behalf of Signor Benito Mussolini with the Holy See. She it was who divulged to foreign correspondents in Rome the half-truths which caused half the newspapers of the world to print maps showing that the new Papal State would be some six times larger than has turned out to be the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: Wicked Widow | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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