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...thunder on the left. Modification, a quibble at best, may or may not solve the problem. What is certain, however, is that Prohibition is distasteful to a great mass of our people and until it is altered to suit the majority it will not, as a law, be in accord with the democratic principles that theoretically bind the nation to its Constitution. Cornell Daily...
From the general principles laid down by the central authorities it becomes evident that a Kulak would be a "poor farmer" in the United States or Germany. Over the breadth and sweep of Russia, conditions are variable. To accord with these varying conditions, a Kulak has been defined by law as a peasant who uses hired labor or machinery, who rents house or room, leases land or orchard, or engages in trade, speculation, "or any other source of non-productive income, including income as religious or secular employees of churches...
...Dartmouth seniors disposed of the song situation very effectively by choosing Rudy Vallee as their favorite movie actress. Although the vagabond lover became involved in a close race with Joan Crawford, it is comparatively safe to assume that the majority of student movie goers are in close accord with the final verdict of the Nougat critics...
...have your letter asking my opinion regarding the Harvard Debating Council Plan for the Enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment. With much of it I find myself in accord, but I should be in grave fear lest section 4 lead to gross abuses. A "federal educational" bureau would become simply the organ of a prohibition party, and this clause might lead to the establishment of an endowed newspaper or some other experiment of more than dubious value...
...wordy welter of the House Judiciary Committee's hearings on legislation for Dry law repeal there began to take unmistakable shape last week a new and significant agreement among potent Wet witnesses. Heretofore few active Wets have been in accord on a remedy for conditions against which they complained (TIME, March 3). In the 1928 campaign Alfred Emanuel Smith proposed changes in the Volstead Act to permit a higher percentage of alcohol in beverages in the discretion of the States. Thus, by his proposal, one State might permit no alcohol whatever, another State two, three, or ten percent...