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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Hyde is a personal Dry whose chief beverage-is buttermilk. His favorite pastime is fishing in Ozark streams. A Methodist, he used to teach Sunday School so ardently that his enemies charged that he used this means of fostering his political career. He smokes cigars, likes chess, pie, plays pitch. He is a perspiring mem- ber of the Hoover Medicine Ball Cabinet...
...Senator Edge is classified as a tariff super-protectionist. Super-protectionists revising tariff rates skyward have so far not been ''helpful" to President Hoover whose_ desire, so far as known, is for ''limited" revision...
...Louis from the 150 h. p. speed launch Bogie. They had not slept for four days. Their running time was 87 hr. 31 min. The Bogie's owner, a Dr. Louis Leroy, was 5 cents richer-a bet won from Yachtsman George M. Cox of New Orleans, whose Martha Jane, racing the Bogie, faltered at Natchez...
Hard words wash across the Canadian border into the U. S. in the wake of hard liquor. Last week there was a recrudescence of the argument about the two countries' Prohibition responsibilities. At Ottawa William D. Euler, Canada's Minister of National Revenue whose blunt speaking on the same subject has riled U. S. officials before (TIME, June 3), lectured the Washington government on ways and means of checking rum-smuggling. Treasury officials in Washington snorted indignantly. Two facts are basic in this international dispute: 1) Canada grants clearance of liquor cargoes for the U. S. on excise...
...Dyers. Most impressive were the King's rowboats. From their sterns hung large white standards bearing the crown and royal cipher. At their prows were small red and white "swan flags." Two Swanherds in scarlet coats rowed each boat. At the tiller of each sat a Swanmaster. whose duty it was to steer and watch for swans. Vintners' and Dyers' skiffs carried the banners of their guilds at the stern and other swan flags (red for the Vintners, blue for the Dyers) at their prow. Supervising the entire Swan-upping was Keeper of the King...