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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Says von Falkenberg: "Improving each week. In fact there has been less use of that 'tycoon,' for I, like the wondrous monk of Siberia got weary and weary and wearier...
...exhausted. . . . Great was the President's annoyance at this exploitation of his name and position. Careful explanations emanated officially from the White House: President Hoover does not own a Wasco Fruit Ranch. He does own some stock in Pozo Products Co. which in turn controls the ranch. The use of his name was "positively unauthorized," "grossly misleading...
Receiving the reports, Commissioner Doran announced: "The Bureau of Prohibition will proceed to act upon applications ... for permits to manufacture whiskey for medicinal use. . . . The amount of actual whiskey on hand July 1, 1929 is 9,549,017 gallons. If further manufacture is now permitted, it will be late fall or nearly Jan. 1, 1930 before actual production commences. . . . Extensive examinations have been made of the bonded whiskey stocks and I can state that they are in sound condition. Of the 300,000 barrels in bonded storage not in excess of 1,000 barrels are of questionable quality. . . . The withdrawal...
...cost of the four-day battle to the U. S. was $18,000, most of which went to farmers for the use of their fields, barns, outhouses. Some of the husbandmen unintentionally contributed to war-time realism when they tripped over military telegraph wires strung through their hayfields, fetched axes and hacked apart the communication lines of the defending force...
...book now in use dates from 1611. * Great Britain has no restrictions against the teaching of birth control...