Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actual execution of Prohibition will take place in Salt Lake City at noon S. M. T. Dec. 5 when the Utah convention meets to ratify. The death chair will be prepared earlier that day. between noon and 1 p. m. E. S. T. by conventions in Pennsylvania and Ohio...
...schedule of taxes low enough so that legitimate liquor merchants could drive bootleggers out of business, taxes that would also yield as fat Federal revenue as possible to replace the gasoline, dividends, capital stock and excess profits taxes which Repeal automatically terminates. In order to have enough liquor available Dec. 5 so that a deficiency of supply shall not keep down tax collections he ordered that U. S. distillers should be allowed to race ahead with production, that the absolute ban on medicinal liquor imports should be removed...
...Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, stated last July that she was in the fight for Repeal, and for temperance, "for the rest of her life." Last month her husband, Banker Charles Hamilton Sabin, died. Last week, Repeal became a certainty. Abruptly Mrs. Sabin announced that after Dec. 5, W. O. N. P. R. would disband...
...hummed at an announcement by President of the Board of Trade Walter Runciman that His Majesty's Government in Great Britain will withdraw on Dec. 7 from President Roosevelt's once-famed "Tariff Truce" (TIME...
...four years Afghanistan's hero has been her King, bespectacled, spade-bearded, ruthless Mohammed Nadir Khan. In 1929 Afghanistan was a shambles. Nadir's nephew King Amanullah, whose Western reforms so angered Afghans, had fled the capital (TIME. Dec. 24, 1928 et seq.). On the throne sat bloody Bacha Sakao, an upstart chief whose name meant "The Water Boy." Backed by the royal family's bribes of the Durani, Uncle Nadir marched on Kabul. He caught one of the Water Boy's favorite generals and his staff, boiled them all in vegetable oil. Water Boy picked...