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Soon U. S. Prohibition agents appeared at ''The Braes," explained to Mr. Pratt that they had no warrant to search his home. They expressed a belief that Mr. Pratt's casks had contained not flower pots but 240 cases of French champagne. Mr. Pratt not only confirmed their belief but obligingly arranged to have the shipment trucked back to Brooklyn, where it was destroyed...
...League's zeal against Col. Foran apparently overreached itself. Its hirelings in search of liquor and gambling evidence raided the Foran hunting lodge at Mt. Airy, N. J. They emerged with photographs of a bar, a cash register, beer barrels, gin bottles. They found no liquor, no slot machines. New Jersey's Republican Senators Kean and Baird, incensed at the League's "chimneysweep" tactics, rose up to demand that the President reappoint their man Foran to office on Feb. 1 when his present commission was to lapse...
...Nanuk with supplies (TIME, Jan. 6). The bodies of Eielson and Borland were not in the snow-drifted plane. The motor had been flung 100 ft. by the crash. The untouched supplies suggested they had not lived to attempt to trudge to shelter. The Nanuk notified all search parties, sent men to dig in the drifts for the bodies, to scour the adjacent coast. Last remaining ray of hope: skiis which Eielson and Borland carried with them were missing from the wrecked plane...
...usual library facilities, the instructor in economics at Harvard, as at other universities, was expected to find materials for teaching and research as best he could and at his own expense. The personal and professional contacts, the knowledge of the field not to be derived from books, the search for data, the subsequent classification and analysis involving much routine work of a purely clerical character, the money for travel and stenographic expenditures, and all other things needed for the best results, he must manage as best he could. So long as economics was treated as a branch of moral philosophy...
...with Dr. Schacht. First he proceeded to ignore him, assured the Allies that if the Reichsbank would not subscribe Germany's share of the B. I. S. capital, then the Prussian State Bank ("Preussische Staatsbank") and the Reichs-Kredit-Gesellschaft would. Secondly he ordered his legal experts to search through the traveling library of documents which all diplomatic delegations carry and find a way to oust the obstreperous Reichsbank President, if necessary. A good lawyer enjoys nothing so much as trying to find out how to do the legally impossible. Presently the experts reported to Dr. Curtius that, although...