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Dates: during 1920-1929
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On Aug. 3, 1918 Archangel was captured by the Allies who immediately pushed south on five disconnected fronts. When the Armistice came, they found themselves frozen in for the winter. In January, with the temperature 30° below zero, the Red Army assaulted them, drove them back. The wounded died from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Home from War | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Last summer a Michigan commission searched for the rest of the lost bodies. With the greatest difficulty 86 were found; eleven were left in France. Russian peasants were hostile, had to be bribed to reveal each grave. One town the Soviet Government, cooperating with the U. S., threatened to plow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Home from War | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Politically dry as dry can be is Nebraska where every aid is given to the enforcement of Prohibition. Startling was last week's news that U. S. District Judge Joseph William Woodrough at Omaha had placed a large and. to Nebraska, alien obstacle in the path of U. S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Warrants Required | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Federal agents, peering through a window of a private house from a back alley, saw steam rising from copper coils, heard the roar of a boiler fire, smelled the sour odor of cooking mash. Although they did not see the moonshiners at work, they broke into the house without warrant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Warrants Required | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Judge Woodrough found the two distillers not guilty. He opined that the agents could enter a house without warrant only if they actually saw the felons at work. Said he: "The entry into the dwelling house and the search of it were unjustifiable and illegal . . . therefore I have ordered the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Warrants Required | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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