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President Hoover called in Senators Harris and Borah, soothed them with kind words. Chairman George Woodward Wickersham announced that his commission's report on "Law Enforcement" was ready. Undersecretary of the Treasury Mills plotted out a scheme of enforcement improvements whereby the coast guard and the border patrol would be unified, the number of ports of entry along the border reduced. From the White House emanated intimations of more shakeups, further reorganizations, in the enforcement service; of the President's putting U. S. district attorneys on their mettle. Senator Sheppard of Texas, author of the 18th Amendment, dusted...
...twenty-eighth annual meeting of that association, held in Poughkeepsie, New York, during the Christmas recess. Professor Tozzer is chairman of the Department of Anthropology at Harvard at the present time. His work among ancient ruins in Latin America has gained him international renown. During the Mexican border trouble in 1914, Professor Tozzer was under fire at Vera Cruz, where he was conducting research work. He is the holder of three degrees from Harvard University...
...revenge: the Mexican consulate and border station at Laredo were closed, with a prospective loss in trade to Laredo citizens of $30,000 for every day the barrier remained closed (see p. 14). It was announced that they would remain closed "until respect and comfort are guaranteed Mexican officials passing through Laredo...
Presumably more bootleggers than good-will crossed the border between the U. S. and Canada last week. Reason: on one side were ranked the newspaper publishers of the U. S. who are accustomed to purchase their newsprint (newspaper paper) almost entirely from Canadian manufacturers at wholesale prices averaging about $55 per ton. On the other side were the Canadian newsprint manufacturers, who desired to raise the price to $60. Louis Alexandre Taschereau, the crisp Premier of Quebec, had declared on his own behalf and for Premier George Howard Ferguson of Ontario:*". . . The price of $55 is not a fair return...
...went to Mexico last week from Zapata County, Texas. Through 143 miles of spandy new 12¾ inch pipe it hissed across the border to feed iron and steel furnaces at Monterrey, "The Pittsburgh of Mexico." Pioneer in international public utility, United Gas Co. of Texas, already has contracts calling for natural gas exports of 18 million cubic feet daily through their new pipe. No niggards, they made expensive gas whoopee in Monterrey one night last week, lit a mighty "Inaugural Beacon" which spurted up house high from the Public Square...