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For two days witnesses pressed upon the committee the benefits they believed such a major change in U. S. Dry policy would produce. Much of their testimony was repetitious. All seemed agreed on these points: 1) enforcement is going from bad to worse, with no honest hope of improvement; 2...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Repeal & Return | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

In a last-minute effort to get action the most famed of Mexican feminists, Dona Sofia Villa de Buentello, a handsome woman in her early 40's, called on President Emilio Portes Gil. Women she declared would make ideal pollwatchers and ballot-counters "because they would not let themselves be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Morrows & Election | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Buffalo, New York, helped Angora, Turkey, last week in spreading the new gospel of a 31-letter Latinized alphabet which dynamic President Mustafa Kemal Pasha has made obligatory throughout the Turkish Republic (TIME, Sept. 17). The trouble has been to keep the new, distinct, simple characters from being corrupted by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dialect Alphabets | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Hard words wash across the Canadian border into the U. S. in the wake of hard liquor. Last week there was a recrudescence of the argument about the two countries' Prohibition responsibilities. At Ottawa William D. Euler, Canada's Minister of National Revenue whose blunt speaking on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Border Argument | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

"... The most inexcusable, unreasonable, contemptible, diabolical, damnable and pusillanimous falsehood ever conceived in the twisted, corrupted, diseased, poisoned, fiendish mind of a black-hearted villain and assassin" was last week isolated and thus described by Mississippi's Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo in a formal address to the State Legislature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Bilbo, Fish | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

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