Word: contraband
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SHIEL (M.P.) Contraband...
...County Leitrim. Daniel McKiernan had been a member of the Republican Army. Brooding on the risks he was running undermined his courage. He asked his friend Peter Mitchell to help him dispose of the rifles he had been ordered to hide. Just as the two boys were dumping their contraband in a bog the Drumdiffer constabulary closed in on them. The Military Tribunal again was not unduly severe. The boys were released in $250 personal bail on a pledge never to have anything more to do with illegal organizations...
...religion may be doing more good. Can't you see this "Blaisdell Act" producing bootleg worship? I can well imagine these children, who are to be so carefully shielded from any reference to a higher power, turning into every church they pass for a surreptitious prayer. Perhaps contraband worship is just what the churches need to make them full to overflowing with this intense younger generation. If this be true, I say more power to Mrs. Blaisdell...
...landing was made during the War, sometimes to take aboard the commander of a German minesweeper, fly him over a mine field located by the Zeppelin, and return him to his command. On occasion a suspected merchantman would be halted by a Zeppelin, boarded by an officer. If contraband were found, the steamer's crew was ordered to its small boats and the steamer bombed to the bottom by the Zeppelin. That practice was abandoned, however, because of the danger of destruction by incendiary bullets from the steamer. Wholly unrelated to a dirigible save by its bullet shape, airplane motor...
...fines imposed in "vice" cases discovered by it. The Graphic, agitating for abolition of the Society, stated what has been charged by many another foe of Censor Sumner: that the Society's operatives functioned as agents provocateurs, habitually duped reluctant booksellers and printers into selling contraband books or erotic pictures, and then arrested them. The Society sued. Publisher Macfadden engaged as counsel Morris L. Ernst, defender of many a "liberal" cause...