Word: americans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...activities the B. of T. P. & P. M. claims the "high sphere of public morals." It helped to bring about Prohibition and with that work it has been chiefly identified since. It opposes "nudity, blasphemy, profanity and the treating of revolting subjects in the American theatre . . . commercialized gambling, prizefighting and the debauching of the young by publications which are indecent or which are clearly intended to excite lascivious feeling...
...From now on, the King's health will be drunk only in water at the American Embassy in London. Last week, Ambassador Dawes issued an order banning the drinking of alcoholic liquors in the Embassy holding that U. S. territory is U. S. soil...
...majority of Mexicans call it a "dignified compromise." Dissenting were the radical anti-clerics. They protest that it is a world defeat for the forces of Liberalism. An unnamed politician said: "The Roman Church will strengthen its hold, especially on the Latin-American countries, which are watching Mexico's test and are anxious to follow her example . . . to free themselves from the yoke of the clergy...
Dartmouth College Frank Pierce Carpenter, paper manufacturer LL.D. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Governor of New York LL.D. Harry Bates Thayer, onetime (1919-25) President of American Telephone & Telegraph Co LL.D. Harvey Gushing, surgeon Litt.D. Charles W. Tobey, Governor of New Hampshire A.M. Glasgow University (Scotland) Marie Curie, scientist LL.D. Fritz Kreisler, violinist LL.D...
Campolo enjoys the distinction of being already rich. Son of a South American cotton-grower he has had three automobiles since he first learned to drive. The late great Tex Rickard had heard of him but just as he intended bringing him to the U. S. Campolo was knocked out by Nebraska's Monte Munn. He intends retrieving his laurels next month by fighting the winner of the Heeney-Maloney fight He said that if he were knocked out in the U. S. he would immediately return to the Argentine...