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Directly in charge of Dry work under Enforcer-in-Chief Mitchell, was Assistant Attorney General Gustav Aaron Young-quist (successor to famed Mabel Walker Willebrandt). When he came into office last year from the attorney generalship of Minnesota, this quiet, practical, tight-mouthed man declared: "I'm a Dry but not a fanatic." Responsible for actual Dry enforcement under Assistant Attorney General Youngquist was Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, appointed director of Prohibition fortnight...
Closest friend of Frau Gustav Stresemann, widow of the late, great German Foreign Minister, is Frau Albert von Baligand. These two tolerably young, distinctively vivacious ladies ("Kate" and "Else") were recently the life of Berlin's staid, stodgy officialdom (a German Cabinet officer's wife is supposed to look like an unpainted, unpowdered laundress, and most do). Tongues wagged when, two years ago, Stresemann sent Dr. von Baligand, then director of the press bureau of the German Government, to Portugal as German Minister. It was thought that Diplomat von Baligand owed this spectacular promotion to his wife...
June 16?Birthday of Gustav V, King of Sweden...
June 16? Birthday of Gustav V, King of Sweden...
Most of the testimony was trivial at first-detailed disputes over such campaign cost items as matches, banners, eye shades, cigars, meals, band music, entertainment of Wisconsin news editors at the Kohler plant. Judge Gustav Gehrz grew impatient when the State tried to make a 30? insignium labeled "KOHLER FOR GOVERNOR" into a valuable "tire cover," ruled it was no such thing. Again and again curious heads turned to the courtroom door, hoping to see Philip LaFollette march in, face his rival, give a touch of political drama to the scene. But the curious were disappointed. Shrewd, Brother Phil kept...