Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quietly that few were conscious of his going, Frederic Moseley Sackett, until lately Senator from Kentucky, sailed out of New York harbor last week aboard the S. S. President Harding to take up the first diplomatic duty of his life as U. S. Ambassador to Germany. With him went Mrs. Sackett. Their departure was almost drab. Only a handful of friends Godsped them from the Hoboken pier. In contrast to the departure for Paris of Ambassador Edge, that other Senator also just beginning a diplomatic career, nobody asked Ambassador Sackett to make any farewell speeches. Nobody gave him any parting...
...pleasure last week for Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon to drive to the Capitol and recommend, before the House Committee on Executive Expenditures, the transfer of Prohibition enforcement from his department to the Department of Justice. What was painful to him was not the prospect of parting with Prohibition-he had had nine years of it-but the instinctive discomfort of a shy man appearing before a Congressional committee on a controversial question...
...District Attorney Mitchell had other more interesting things to say last week, things which amazed even professional Drys. In a private letter which he made public without revealing the name of the addressee, he declared that it would hereafter be his resolute intention to refuse appointments as U. S. Attorneys, Assistant U. S. Attorneys or U. S. Marshals to men who touched drink or even so much as disbelieved in the Prohibition act. Said he: "I believe that no man who makes a practice of drinking intoxicating liquor, or who has definite or pronounced views in opposition to Prohibition, belongs...
Work Done. Last week the U. S. House of Representatives...
After long obscure ploddings the Senate Lobby Committee last week got back into news headlines with two facts which it had dredged up from the depths of its tariff investigation. They were...