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President Hoover was last week told about Cordials & Beverages, the green-&-orange liquor store at No. 201 E. 44th St., Manhattan, which has (been doing a thriving, open retail business in intoxicants for the past two months (TIME, Feb. 10 et seq.). One Eaton Lehcirt, undergraduate "Prohibitionist," of Columbia University, wrote him a rowdy, distraught letter in which he detailed a personal visit to Cordials & Beverages, and the purchase for $1.50 of a bottle of Spanish Port which "I would swear was as good as any I have bought in Spain." Threateningly, discourteously, Lehcirt asked President Hoover, in effect, what...
Lest anyone should suppose that this "parity" was worked out with the aid the once famed but now forgotten "Scientific Naval Yardstick" called for by President Hoover (TIME, May 6, et seq.), senator Robinson said: "Prolonged investigation of the subject led to the conclusion that no scientific basis exists for measuring the difference in value between large 8-inch gun cruisers and vessels carrying 6-inch guns...
...unlike most persons it can have no religion Wholly unconscious of church protests against Red Russian persecution of be lievers, many a great U. S. corporation is cooperating to help the Soviet Union be come prosperous, potent (TIME, June 17). Examples are General Electric Co. (TIME, July 1, ct seq.), Ford Motors Co. (TIME, Sept. 23, et seq.), the Austin Co. which is building an entire Russian city "Austin-grad" (TIME, Sept. 16), the U. S. Shipping Board which has sold a merchant fleet to Russia (TIME, Jan. 27). But until last week no great U. S. corporation had made...
While Mr. Gandhi sat waiting for the water to evaporate, 319,000,000 Indians were comparatively peaceful. No riots, bloodshed or violence of any sort had marked his march on foot 165 miles from Ahmadabad to the sea at Dandi in 25 days (TIME, March 24 et seq.). He had broken the law against seditious utterance at every village on the march. He had obtained the resignation of dozens of village officials, the pledge of hundreds of villagers to join in his movement of Mass Civil Disobedience...
...holy ground. During three weeks in November some 1,000,000 souls of every description had overrun the cemetery seeking the tomb of a priest, the Rev. Father Patrick J. Power, dead of phthisis some 60 years ago, lately reputed to possess great healing powers (TIME. Nov. 25 et seq.). Private prayer and meditation in the cemetery were impossible: the place was a bedlam of the faithful, the curious, the peanut-and-postcard-selling. At length William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, ordered the hordes away, the gates locked while the Church pondered the phenomena and decided...