Word: cents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the statement by Harry H. Porter, President of the National Safety Council, that in his opinion at least 60 per cent of all automobile accidents in 1937 were due to drunken driving, the ghost of John Barleycorn once again raises its dissipated head. In spite of the desperate attempts of national brewers to press his pants and give him an old-fashioned face-lifting, it is the same old man that haunted prohibition societies in the early nineteen hundreds. He is back again; and unless he has mended his ways--which is exceedingly doubtful, considering the nature...
...inevitable that if the miserable failure of repeal to approximate a solution of the liquor problem is not recognized and steps immediately taken, an outburst of public indignation will surely result. Massachusetts, for example, saw in 1937 a 40 per cent increase of its evening automobile accidents, with increases in arrests for drunkenness corresponding. Figures for 1938 show that the condition is becoming worse. If prohibition failed to squelch Mr. Barleycorn, surely repeal has sent him off on one whopper of a bender...
Dividends of eight per cent on charge purchases and ten per cent on cash purchases for the fiscal year which ended on June 30, 1938 were voted yesterday at the annual meeting of the Harvard Cooperative Society...
...administrative board consists of five Seniors and two directors from the second-year class. Members of the bureau, established as a corporation, lend three hours of their time each week to destitute clients who are asked to pay only a voluntary 25 cent registration...
...December the kitchen workers were about 80 per cent organized under the A. F. of L. and insisting on a closed or preferential shop. The University refused to do anything but recognize the local units as sole bargaining agents, which they were required...