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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Knocked Down. The Commission set up and knocked down various substitutes for Prohibition-as-is. Repeal of the 18th Amendment would be a "backward step" to re-admit the saloon. To permit State option would be nullification. Beer of 2.75% would satisfy nobody who "has developed a taste for intoxicating beverages." Government sale would not be "expedient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Wicker shambles | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

...giant sawmill pools. If the Soviet Government would permit, U. S. inspectors might be sent to watch each Russian log from tree to sawmill to ship. Otherwise the U. S. Congress must now decide whether to bar all Soviet lumber because some of it is convict-hewn, or to admit the inextricable mixture as Mr. MacDonald is doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Mr. Fish . . . Not at Home! | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

Faith healers on the other hand admit that pain and disease really exist. But if the patient profoundly believes in God, God neutralizes the ill and drives it out. Ointments, laying on of hands, prayer help make the belief curative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Faith Healing | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

...game of baseball, relations between players and coach are closer than in any other sport. It is by no means an overemphasis of athletics that Harvard should admit the failure of what was admittedly an experiment. It is unfortunate, however, that the Yale-Harvard series should find one team with, and the other without a coach on the bench. If only to avoid unpleasant discussion, both teams should certainly play these games under similar conditions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRIKE THREE | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

...agree that the football breach should not be allowed to interfere with the schedule of matches in other sports. The CRIMSON expresses it thus: "When there is no possibility of mending the football breach for a number of years at least. It is a narrow principle that will not admit a full program of sports to be more important that a game of football. The Princetonian states editorially: "...there appears no compelling reason, from the undergraduate viewpoint, for continuing a wholesale sacrifice of all sports to a dispute that began over one." There is sound good sense to both...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Fence | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

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