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...country-an act forbidden by presidential decree. Mr. Robinson protested that he was about to have it changed into U. S. money, refused to give up the gold. Whereupon he was arrested, later released. He put the matter in the hands of the local U. S. Consul, crossed the border irate and without his money...
...Nation. The Attorney General spoke in broad terms. On both seaboards and along the Mexican border, he said, customs and narcotic squads have been increased, reorganized. In all racket-ridden cities investigators are plodding away at gangsters' bank-accounts and records. A special agent is in Chicago coordinating the work of Prohibition, Narcotics and Industrial Alcohol Bureaus, the Immigration, Coast Guard and Customs Services. All this might have seemed nebulous without the Guzick conviction to give it point. And the same day Guzick was indicted, mounted Customs men had slain two smuggling gangsters, wounded another, in Texas...
...experts also favor the extension of the quota system now in force to the countries of the Western Hemisphere. The necessity of increasing the border patrols for the exclusion of aliens who at present are being smuggled into the United States in large numbers was also stressed...
...While on an official mission for international disarmament," said Senator de Brouckere impressively, "I became convinced that the Mussolini government is preparing for war on both sides of the Albanian border as well as along the Alps. The German nationalists (see p. 23), would not behave as they are doing if they did not feel themselves supported by the Fascists in Rome...
Author Hamlin Garland, 70, has a white mustache, a mane of white hair, a good-natured expression. He married (1899) Zulime Taft, sister of Sculptor Lorado Taft. They have two daughters. The Garlands live in Manhattan. Other books: Trail Makers of the Middle Border, A Son of the Middle Border, A Daughter of the Middle Border, Back Trailers of the Middle Border...