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...Prohibition Bureau, which came into being as a Treasury appendage on Jan. 16. 1920. Its direction ranged from the optimistic ballyhoo of Roy Asa Haynes through the sword-rattling of General Lincoln Clark Andrews to the do-nothing calm of Dr. James Maurice Doran. In 19.30 it was transferred to the Department of Justice. In 13 years it spent more than $100,000,000, took more than 250 lives. Last week its last director, Major Alfred Vernon Dalrymple, went bitterly out of office with familiar charges of "duplicity, double-crossing and double-dealing" against his subordinates. The Prohibition Bureau ceased...
...Lockwood, safe in a private villa, gasped, "I feel weak and have lost eight pounds in weight. I want to go away from here." Mr. Fullerton returned to the Hotel Mediterraneo where the Guardia Civil had been assaulted and had smacked Mrs. Lockwood with the flat of his sword. "Provided we are all treated fairly," said Mr. Fullerton, ''I will continue to live in Mallorca after the trial. Americans here have a bad name among Mallorcans. There should be a better understanding on both sides...
...editor warned: "Drug with the potency and effects of dinitrophenol is a two-edged sword with appalling possibilities for harm as well as for good...
...lines. Salt water is in Juan Trippe's blood. His family settled on Maryland's sleepy Eastern shore in 1664. Great-great-grandfather John Trippe in 1804 sailed as third officer of the U. S. S. Vixen, got a Congressional Medal and a gold sword for battling the Barbary pirates. Great-grandfather John Trippe commanded the U. S. S. John Trippe, smallest sloop in the battle of Lake Erie. The present U. S. S. John Trippe sports two gold stars on its funnel for sinking two German submarines. Lately it patrolled Rum Row. Father Charles White Trippe...
...Berlin sword-handy Ludwig Diels, Chief of the Prussia Police who now have 12,000 Germans behind barbed wire, said last week that he has accepted from prominent prisoners eleven challenges to rapier duels, six to sabre duels and one to a pistol duel "unto death." The pistol challenger is Prisoner Max von Prittwitz, a relative of Germany's onetime Ambassador to the U. S. Baron Friedrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron. "I think it is amusing for a police chief to accept challenges from men he is forced to arrest." chuckled Chief Diels. "I love to fight. There...