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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...driving a car under a license of a "foreign" state, grave penalties are to be meted out to a penitent company. The phrase, "one hundred dollar fine" drops lightly form the lips of officers, and falls like a death-knell upon the ears of those unfortunates who now loudly boast their independence of Massachusetts and things Bostonian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM FAR AFIELD | 11/12/1929 | See Source »

...Green Hat." Casually up the marble steps which lead to the Senate Office Building walked George Lyons Cassidy one day last week. Under his coat something was hidden. Police stopped him, found a pint of whiskey on him, other bottles in his car...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Washington's War | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...Wilson, in Peiping, China, was telling about her Orient-touring experiences, including a $3 ride in a baggage car to see the Great Wall. The conductor, learning his passenger's identity, got her a chair, a supply of tea, rice cakes, persimmons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...Evanston, Ill., one Pauline Stasiak smashed her car into that of one Peter Pennacchia, backed away, drove off. Mr. Pennacchia left his wreck in the road, went to his garage and obtained his other car, drove around the corner and was again smashed into by Miss Stasiak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

College authorities who object to the prevalent undergraduate custom of trooping off for the weekend have obviously not tried to sleep to the Massachusetts avenue obligato of Mack trucks and screaming street car rails. The two nights a week of rural slumber afforded by the pleasant Harvard custom of week-ending guarantee at least a nucleus of rest around which to group whatever additional moments may be snatched in the cloistered bedrooms abutting on the square. In other words the Dean's office has made no mistake in allowing a certain amount of leeway on such weekends as the coming...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WEEK-END | 11/8/1929 | See Source »

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