Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greatest trouble was in Pennsylvania where the liquor control bills of Dry Governor Pinchot met two-edged opposition. The Legislature, on the Governor's recommendation, enacted a $2-per-gallon tax on all liquor stored within the State on Dec. 5. Distillers indignantly protested, claiming that the bill was unconstitutional, that they had not been given a hearing. Famed Schenley Distillers, the major part of whose stocks are stored in Pennsylvania, and National Distillers Products Corp., closed their plants, announced they would make their liquor elsewhere. Other manufacturers tried to ship liquor out of Pennsylvania, were prevented by armed...
...final audacity of the week, II Duce started rumors that he plans to withdraw Italy from the League of Nations by ordering the Grand Council of the Fascist Party to meet Dec. 5 "to make an important decision on Italy's relations with the League...
...defied the late great Senator Thomas James Walsh and the whole U. S. Senate in the Teapot Dome investigation. For doggedly refusing to answer any & all questions on his private business affairs he was cited for contempt of the Senate, clapped into a Washington jail for 199 days (TIME. Dec. 2, 1929). Yet of all the black sheep of the Harding oil scandals he alone has been able not only to hold his own but also to strengthen vastly his business prestige. Now he even has as his largest individual stockholder righteous John Davison Rockefeller...
...Dec. 12 M.I.T.; Dec. 22, McGill at Montreal; Jan. 6, Toronto at New York; Jan. 8, McGill; Jan. 10, Boston University; Jan. 13, Princeton at Princeton; Jan 20, Princeton; Jan 27, Boston University; Feb. 10, Dartmouth at Hanover; Feb. 12, Princeton playoff if necessary; Feb. 16, Dartmouth; Feb. 19 or 21, Dartmouth playoff if necessary; Feb. 24, Yale at New Haven; Mar. 3, Yale; Mar. 7, Yale playoff if necessary at New Haven...
Said happy Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin: "I am thrilled at the prospect of going to Stockholm on Dec. 11 to receive the honor at the hands of King Gustaf. I certainly can use the money...