Word: districts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prohibition. ... I would add to these recommendations the desirability of reorganizing the various services engaged in the prevention of smuggling into one Border Patrol under the Coast Guard. ... It is not to be expected that any criminal law will ever be fully enforced as long as criminals exist. . . . The District of Columbia should be the model of city law enforcement in the nation. Conditions here ... are far from perfect...
...James District of the Arkansan Ozarks last winter came Connie Franklin, a shell-shocked War veteran escaped from the Arkansas Hospital for Nervous Diseases. He worked as a farm hand, wooed 16-year-old Tillir Ruminer. One evening last March they set out along a lonely path to be married. Suddenly nine men fell upon them. Tillir the attackers raped. Franklin they emasculated, tossed to death on a flaming woodpile...
...corporations found themselves involved in anti-trust proceedings. Attorney General William De Witt Mitchell filed suit against Warner Brothers and William Fox and announced a general investigation of the pooled patents held by Radio Corp. of America. This announcement closely followed a ruling in which the U. S. District Court in Wilmington, Delaware, declared that Radio Corp. was following monopolistic practices in its licensing policy...
Theodore Hall Jr., of Washington, District of Columbia...
When these advertisements appeared, the assistant district attorney in charge of prohibition enforcement refused to take any action against the editors of the CRIMSON and Lampoon, dismissing the whole affair as a college prank. It could not be learned last night if an investigation was now being contemplated, in the light of developments of the past week...