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Fortnight ago Roy Asa Haynes, double-chinned champion of the ultra-Drys, was appointed Acting Prohibition Commissioner (TIME, April 4) to the rousing cheers of the Anti-Saloon League. Last week the victory of the League, the Dry stand of President Coolidge, the humiliation of General Lincoln C. Andrews* turned out to be equivocal. Treasury orders were issued to the effect that Commissioner Haynes must have each order approved by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrews before it is issued...
...Benny." To delighted correspondents at Shanghai, Lieutenant Commander Roy Campbell Smith, U. S. N., told last week with infectious gusto how, as Commander of the destroyer Noa, he had ordered the bombardment of Nanking (TIME, April 4) in order to save the lives of the U. S. Consul and other U. S. citizens beseiged in the city. The spectre of Commodore Dewey, and his ringing command, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley!" kindled in the correspondents' imagination as their pencils raced to take down the words of hearty, beaming Lieutenant Commander Smith...
...Hazard '29; G. M. Healy '28; J. T. Herstrom '27; C. A. Hicks ocC; E. J. Hodder '28; D. B. Howard '28; J. G. Hurd '27; Alfred Hurwitz '29; G. L. Joughin '27; Louis Klein '27; R. I. Knapp '29; H. L. Kozol '27; Nathan Labovich '27; Roy Lamson Jr. '29; W. H. Lawrence Jr. '29; H. S. Leonard '27; J. S. Lobred '29; H. F. McCarthy '27; R. B. Macdonald '27; S. B. McGavran '28; W. D. McKerrow '27; G. T. Major '27; Dominick Manoli '27; *W. D. Morton Jr. '28; L. H. Nason '27; E. M. Nathan...
...paunchy, baldheaded, double-chinned man, whose trousers seem never to have been pressed, smiled the smile of vindication. He, Roy Asa Haynes, bright morning star of the Anti-Saloon League from Hillsboro, Ohio, had suffered two years of nearly total eclipse. Last week President Coolidge had him appointed Acting Prohibition Commissioner, under the new re-organization act. For four years after President Harding appointed » him Federal Prohibition Commissioner he held the center of the Prohibition Enforcement stage; since April, 1925, when General Lincoln C. Andrews became Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition, he has danced through...
...personal letters in TIME, March 7 you make the following statement: Comparatively "poor men" who have appeared on TIME'S cover: . . . Pope Pius XI, Alfred E. Smith, Paul von Hindenburg, Andrew Volstead, Doctor Ray Lyman Wilbur, Admiral Togo, Rene Fonck, Helen Wills, Joseph Conrad, Carrie Chapman Catt, Roy Chapman Andrews, Eugene O'Neill, John Joseph Pershing, Abd-el-Krim, Ramsay Macdonald. If these be poor men then us ordinary mortals must be paupers...