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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prohibition law and for a thorough inquiry to see if it can be enforced and, if not, what are the remedies. . . . But both the President and his Commission have gone as far afield as possible. . . . The investigation will not be through in one year or in two. Why, the stupendous task of investigating all lawlessness and of a readjustment of all judicial procedure is just as impossible of accomplishment in my lifetime or in the President's tenure of office as anything I can think of. . . . If Prohibition is not effectively enforced until that is done, we will have mighty...
Kemal Djenany Bey, slender, swart Second Secretary of the Turkish Embassy in Washington, drove last week with a friend through Fairfax, Va., was halted by two state prohibition officers. Fisticuffing followed, from which Djenany Bey emerged with two black eyes. Arrested, he produced his diplomatic card, claimed immunity, was released. The officers said he had been driving wildly. Djenany Bey declared that the Turkish Government would demand a public apology. Witnesses of the encounter suspected that much of the trouble arose because the dusky diplomat had been mistaken for a Negro...
...Nominated by acclamation Prof. William Moseley Brown for Governor and Capt. C. C. Berkeley for Attorney-General. It left the nomination for Lieutenant-Governor open, in hopes the state Republicans would choose that candidate, thus permitting the two groups to coalesce against the regular Democrats. Nominee Brown, a 35-year-old professor of psychology at Washington & Lee University, was described as the state's "most cantankerous and catamountish campaigner," but when led to the platform he turned out to be a mild-mannered polite gentle man, still trailing a classroom atmosphere after him as he pleaded against bitterness, called...
Arch Coleman is a quiet Quaker. Fifty-two and fair, he walks, hunts, fishes for diversion. He owned the City Coal Co. at Minneapolis until he was appointed postmaster there seven years ago. Last fortnight he thought he was going to move to Washington to sit in the House of Representatives. Last week he did find himself in Washington, sitting not at the Capitol in a mere Representative's seat but up in the Hoover sub-Cabinet. Helping hands at the White House had straightened out a bad political mess in his favor...
...Hoover secretary, to handle particularly post office patronage. A Republican primary was ordered. Mr. Coleman. good Newton friend that he was, resigned as Minneapolis postmaster to run in that primary. He had ample reason to believe he was the Administration's choice for nomination and election. Against him ran two other Republicans: Lieut. Gov. W. I. Nolan and onetime Yale footballer Walter William Heffelfinger (TIME June...