Word: swift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prohibition?"A treaty is being negotiated with Great Britain with respect to the right of search of hovering vessels. To prevent smuggling, the Coast Guard should be greatly strengthened and a supply of swift power boats should be provided. The major sources of production should be rigidly regulated, and every effort should be made to suppress interstate traffic. With this action on the part of the national Government and the cooperation which is usually rendered by municipal and State authorities, Prohibition should be made effective...
Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania: "A canoe which I was paddling up the Yellow Breeches Creek near Harrisburg, capsized in the rapids, pitching me headlong into the swift current. Being an excellent swimmer, I reached the shore, where my wife helped me from the water. Drenched, hatless, I walked more than a mile to a farm hourse. Next day I was none the worse for my chilling experience. The newspaper made a great joke over the fact that I had been...
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...Swift 6, Co. have announced that they will not " permit the Department of Agriculture to place auditors permanently in their offices with power to examine at all times their books, papers and documents." Mr. Swift, in a formal statement for his company, declared: " We claim on behalf of our 45,000 stockholders the right which the Constitution guarantees to all citizens of being permitted (in the absence of specific charges) to conduct our business peacefully without interference from Government agents...
...Swift argued that if the Government has power to maintain accountants in his office, it could do likewise in all other business offices in the country-which would be " unthinkable." He also implied that Secretary Wallace has construed the recent Packers and Stockyards Act to be much broader in scope than the text of the Act justifies...