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...Passed by vote of 305 to 49 a bill to make legal the transfer of surplus naval vessels which might be useful to the Coast Guard in its liquor patrol work...
...them. Admiral Robison when I last saw him said to me: 'Doheny, they may put up one gibbet and hang me on it and another gibbet and hang you beside me. If they do I'll die happy in the knowledge that we have saved the Pacific coast from attack. We have done our duty to the United States. We have made it possible to protect the Pacific Islands and to put up a good naval fight for the Philippines...
...debated behind closed doors. Then a vote was taken-61 to 7, in favor of the treaty which will permit British ships to bring liquor into American ports under seal in exchange for which American officers may seize British rum smugglers within an hour's sail of our coast...
...first taste, growing more zestful with each bite, or closeup. Its story is that of a man embittered at fate by the sudden loss of his young bride, who hesitates to take the fruit of Eden offered to him in the person of a lonely girl of the Georgia coast, prisoner alike of fear and a maniacal murderer. The man who fears life's traps finally clutches at the fruit, rescuing the girl while she saves her own soul from the incubus of fear that has ridden her family. The tale is told with extraordinary vividness and pungency...
Regular communication is kept with all the southern part of the country and stations half way across the continent. Every night half a dozen or more western coast stations are heard...