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Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer, Congressman from Missouri, forced through Congress in 1920 a law known as the National Motor Vehicle Act. He was proud of his legislative handiwork, was glad to have people call it the Dyer Act. Its purpose was to break up interstate traffic in stolen automobiles. Violators could be jailed for five years, fined $5,000. Enforcement proved difficult. Soon one-third of all Department of Justice secret operatives were doing nothing but chasing car thieves. In 1929 the U. S. convicted 2,123 Dyer Act violators, sent 1,515 to penitentiaries...
...celestial fish-fry the Lord God, in the simple frock-coated image of a benignant Negro pastor, creates the world and leaves to inspect his handiwork, declaring, "I'll be back Saturday." Then are exhibited the careers of Adam and Eve, of Cain and of Noah, who is commanded to live aboard an Ark while a world given over to dicing, short skirts, and all manner of Evil is submerged beneath the floods. Years later the Lord God selects Moses to lead his people out of the land of Pharaoh. Pharaoh's palace is depicted as a glorified...
...Esme was pleased with his diplomatic handiwork. In a farewell speech he insisted that the relations between the U. S. and Britain were never better, that any idea of war between them was "fan tastic" and that those who predicted it were "already qualified for the insane asylum...
...eyed copyist will attend, that many a minor dressmaker will quickly ape his best creations. Like him, designers of furniture, china, fabrics, shoes, are subjected to constant "pirating" by less imaginative competitors. Their only protection now is to patent their designs-a procedure of years, during which their artful handiwork often becomes obsolete...
Last January when European powers, President Coolidge not objecting, asked Mr. Young and John Pierpont Morgan to come to Paris, Mr. Young was reluctant to accept. He knew and his countrymen were beginning to know how large a part of the so-called Dawes Plan had been his handiwork in 1924. There was no patriotic compulsion to go and do some more hard work, especially since it then looked as though no amount of work could bring success. When he did accept and reached Paris, it became apparent that the other nations' delegates could agree on him alone...