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...John's College (Annapolis, Md.), President Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, onetime (1930-33) U. S. Bureau of Prohibition Director, exhorted: "You are urged to study hard, be gentlemen, not to use liquor in any form...
People who can afford Hardy trout-rods and Purdy shotguns can afford books like this. In fact, 25 such persons may spend $125 each for a leather-bound autographed copy of Artist Hunt's sketch book and put it away for their grandsons to look at when buffleheads, woodcock, black-breasted plover, wild turkeys and the like are extinct. Artist Hunt is the man who makes animal stories look so attractive in fiction magazines. This volume testifies eloquently that he, like Etcher Frank Benson, has gone to nature for his learning, really knows his game. The publisher will somewhat...
...stores the State table linen in special cupboards, where she interviews tradesmen; 5) the office of Captain Ross T. Mclntire, White House physician, who is really not a servant; 6) the storeroom with shelves full of canned and bottled goods and one corner given over to pheasants, ducks, grouse, woodcock, quail and other game hanging until they become "high" enough for the President's taste (see cut. p. 5); 7) a ''salad room" lined with cupboards and refrigerators and equipped with four chromium chairs around a modernistic table...
Prosecutor Woodcock opened his case before the jury of eleven white businessmen and a Negro dentist by charging that Defendant Shushan had exacted personal tribute of 2? per cubic yard from the contractors who dredged the fill for his airport and seawalls. When the quiet, incisive prosecutor twice referred to these payments as "graft," Counsel Wilkinson leaped up, demanded a mistrial. He was overruled. On the stand a string of dredging company officials supported and elaborated the Government's charge, pieced together a devious tale of threats and intimidation, of large cash sums passed quietly to Shushan...
...defense admitted then, softly queried Prosecutor Woodcock, that Colonel Shushan had received the money...