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When the Wickersham report was submitted to Congress, Attorney General Mitchell sent along a supplementary statement of his own which set forth his Prohibition views and recommendations. Like the Commission, he advised Congress to give his department charge of Prohibition enforcement: "The closest cooperation must exist between the detection of offenses and the preparation of evidence . . . and [those] who prosecute the cases. These agencies would work together more efficiently if in the same department...
...noncommittally when a British correspondent asked, "May we say that the motto of the American delegation is Faith, Hope and Parity?" As the top-hatted, frock-coated delegation was met by Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes in a grey fedora and lounge suit, the inevitable cockney voice that seems to exist in every English crowd boomed, "Ow! Pipe th' disarmin' blokes...
...clear perspective of hindsight he saw that it was not only wrong for him as an official of the Chinese Nationalist Government to have paid a camel-load of silver dollars to a bandit, but also that it would be morally wrong to allow the bandit to continue to exist. Governor Hu firmly resolved to exterminate the fellow...
...conspired against the public good and that ''for the safety of the Republic we now decree that this dangerous conspiracy must be ended by November 15." In July the monopoly was split into 34 separate companies (splinters, Wall Street called them) and the great oil monopoly officially ceased to exist. But the largest Standard splinters remain the largest of U. S. oil companies; the Standard group still controls roughly 50% of the industry. Among the major companies once constituent portions of the oil monopoly, now separate but still prosperous...
...clipping from the Princeton Alumni Weekly, printed in an adjoining column, voices, somewhat too vociferously perhaps, criticism of an attitude that is altogether too common in these United States. No one will deny that there are obvious broadening advantages for an American who studies in England, but similar advantages exist for the Englisher who attends a university in this country...