Word: whats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just what he meant by that he did not explain. His statement for the printed press was handed out?and mailed broadcast to smalltown editors throughout the land?by his Manhattan office. "Railroaded to jail. . . . Sins I have not committed. . . . A man of honor and integrity," were some of the...
What the Treasury Department in Washington characterized as a "wide de- parture," what many a Wet construed as a reduction of the law to an absurdity, what many a Dry welcomed as a solution of the problem of punishing liquor buyers occurred last week in the U. S. District Court...
Last fortnight the Senate, wondering what had become of the $1,719,654 additional Prohibition enforcement appropriation allowed the Treasury Department earlier in the year (TIME, March 11), asked Secretary of the Treasury Mellon for a report. Last week he made his accounting.
The added appropriation was spent for 275 extra agents. What they did puzzled Senators because the report showed that since April i, 1929, there have been fewer arrests, fewer prosecutions, fewer stills and less malt liquor seized than during the corresponding period last year. Only the seizure of spirits increased...
To show what a family man he was, he called himself madre de quatro (mother of four).