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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having damned legislation in the Senate for two sessions past, the Swing-Johnson bill to build the world's hugest dam in Black Canyon on the Colorado River, was last week passed by the Senate, 64 to 11. Passed by the House last spring, the measure now went to conference to have House-Senate differences composed...
Ralph D. Blumenfeld is 64 years old. He was born in the U.S., worked on Chicago and New York newspapers. Then he went to England and became editor of the London Daily Express-owned by the most potent of Canadian-born peers, Lord Beaverbrook. Editor Blumenfeld toured the U.S., this autumn, as guest of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Last week, back in London, he told of the one ineffaceable memory of his tour-Prohibition, "the greatest, most tragic joke any nation played upon itself in the history of civilization...
...went to many private dinners in all parts of the country, and with only one exception-in Chicago-I never saw a prohibition table. I went to cocktail parties attended by State officials, United States legislators, judges, college presidents, by-it seems ridiculous to enumerate them. With the fewest possible exceptions, they all drank as much as or more than they did before prohibition. All say that prohibition is a sad, degrading farce. The only hope they have for unfastening the .millstone around their necks is that the Volstead act will gradually fall into desuetude and that the nation will...
...Captain Carey failed, none of his officers took charge. "The officers of this ship do not seem to measure up to the standard that we would expect in a British ship." And from the whole disaster Inspector Hoover stated there was one great lesson to be learned. Mechanically, nothing went wrong. Humanly, almost everything went wrong. "We must hereafter stress men more than things...
Rothstein was the big loser. At the end of the sitting he had to give his IOU for $349,000. He gave another IOU for $49,000 in cash lying on the table, which he shoved into his pocket. "See you later," he told them, and went...