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...Passed, after a three-day debate, a bill transferring Prohibition enforcement from the Treasury to the Department of Justice (TIME, Jan. 27 et seq...
...headed regular, whose insurgent opponent was Francis Williams. Nominee Walmsley has been acting mayor in the absence of Arthur J. O'Keefe, monster (300 lb.) Mayor of New Orleans. The issue in the Democratic primary was last year's bloody trolley strike (TIME, July 15 et seq.). Accusing Candidate Walmsley of helping Public Service Corp. to break the strike, Candidate Williams begged workingmen to "kick the aristocracy out of City Hall." Candidate Walmsley talked of Law & Order, changed the subject to civic progress. A dirty muckraking campaign though the primary was, with each candidate charging the other with...
Marion Swenson, 17-year-old daughter of Capt. Olaf Swenson of the icelocked furship Nanuk for which Pilots Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland perished in Siberia (TIME, Dec. 9 et seq.), radioed the U. S. press that, now that Eielson's plane wreck was found, she and her father would proceed to Nome in another plane. Said she: "I have had a wonderful experience and I wouldn't take anything in the world for it, but I will be glad to get a glimpse of Seattle again. . . . Every minute of the time has been filled with adventure...
...Command from his father, the late great General William Booth, met with stout resistance from overwhelming Army factions opposed to the Booth dynasty. Then began the battle of the Booths, which raged for months, in which Booths fought Booths, anti-Booths fought all Booths (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928, et seq.). Ultimately Commissioner Edward John Higgins, International Chief of Staff, anti-Booth, was elected General by the Army's High Council...
Married. Constanza, daughter of rebellious onetime Premiere José Sanchez Guerra of Spain; and Lieut. José Estrella of the Spanish navy, one of her father's guards while he was a state prisoner aboard the gunboat Dato (TIME, Feb. 11, 1929 et seq.); at Madrid...