Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt let lady correspondents scoop male newshawks with the treasured news that after Feb. 15, when Prohibition ends in the District of Columbia, "simple wines" will be served at the White House, "preference being given to American wines. No distilled liquor [presumably no champagne] will at any time be served...
...next three debates were announced last night by Edward M. Rowe '27, director of Debating. On March 17 a Harvard team composed of Malcolm Hoffman '34, Seymour M. Peyser '34, and Joshua B. Cahn '35, alternate, will debate with the University of Chicago over the facilities of the Columbia Broadcasting Company. The Harvard team will speak from Boston, and the Chicago team from the studies of the Company in Chicago. The subject, not yet definitely agreed upon, will probably deal with some problem of college education...
When the District of Columbia liquor bill was before the Senate, Senator Capper got up, proposed a long list of amendments which would have changed the whole nature of the act. No other Senators were interested in the amendments. They sat idly by waiting for him to finish. As Mr. Capper proposed each amendment the following occurred...
...announced that he had resigned as secretary of the Democratic National Committee early in January. A New Hampshire lawyer and close personal friend of the President, he had gone to Washington ten months ago to do business before Government departments, had not yet been admitted to the District of Columbia bar. Said he last week: "When I go into a department, I always tell them to settle the matter on its merits and to bend over backward in view of my being secretary of the national committee. And they do lean over backward...
...whom he first used suasion, he conferred repeatedly last week with Cuba's bantam generalissimo, ex-Sergeant Fulgencio Batista who commands the entire army with the modest rank of Colonel. According to correspondents, "Caffery read the riot act to Batista." Out to the army post at Camp Columbia hurried Batista and most of Cuba's politicos, excepting Surgeon Grau who shut himself up in the Presidential Palace. After hours of wrangling in the ballroom of Camp Columbia word was passed out to correspondents at 1 :30 a. m. that the resignation of President Grau had been obtained...