Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that. In Washington, Nominee Hoover repeated to the newsmen that he "would rather not discuss" the matter at all. A Southern speaking tour was arranged for Mrs. Willebrandt, on Nominee Hoover's heels through Tennessee later this month. She was also scheduled to speak next week at a State convention of the W. C. T. U. in Kokomo, Ind. Mrs. Willebrandt returned to her duties as Assistant Attorney General in special charge of Volstead violations. While she deplored the position she found herself in, she said: "I suppose it is inevitable. I am sort of a personification of Prohibition...
...opposition to Senator Shipstead, who seeks re-election as a Farmer-Laborite; the Democrats' shrewdness in withdrawing their candidate for Senator, to give Senator Shipstead a clear field. "The Swedes and Norwegians," explained Correspondent Gilbert, "have been 'Yon-Yonsoned' into a state of mind in which they are ready to vote for Al Smith as a person on whom the original-stock American looks down." Senator Shipstead, pet of the "Yon-Yonson" voters, appeared with the Nominee in St. Paul but did not commit himself. The report that he was "hurt" followed the Nominee's neglect...
...hell is he? He was born on the Mother Lode of California 59 years ago and one of his parents had Mayflower ancestors. He is one of those persons who has been vaguely "associated with" and "closely allied with" various famous people. His biography gives a onetime State Engineer of New York, the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, and the late Major-General Leonard Wood, as references. He "has travelled in many parts of the world, sometimes by direction of a President of the United States." Also: "He has attended at different times the services of almost every...
District Attorney John Monaghan continued, last week, his investigation of the Philadelphia bootleg ring. During six weeks of activity he has arrested 33 policemen, a member of the State Legislature, sundry racketeers. He has set political trouserlegs a-trembling, has looked suave, representative Philadelphians squarely in the eye. Once he hustled for 44 hours without sleep...
Legislator. Matthew J. Patterson, plump, horn-spectacled member of the State Legislature and Vare-Republican leader of the 19th ward, was arrested and held in $15,000 bail, charged with extortion, bribery, conspiracy. A lawyer testified that Mr. Patterson had commissioned him to collect certain moneys "for campaign purposes." During six months up to Aug. 15, the lawyer had accordingly obtained $12,195 from one William C. Peters, a florid gentleman with a drooping moustache. The lawyer was not aware that Mr. Peters was a saloonkeeper. He was not aware that the funds were protection fees from 20 speakeasies...