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...Edict. In Wildwood, N. J., city councilmen considered a 3,800-word ordinance prohibiting dogs from barking between...
When Bruening faced a budget deficit, the Reichstag refused to support his demand for additional taxation. In desperation, the bespectacled Chancellor asked President von Hindenburg to issue an emergency edict under Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution...
...blight was cast on the Bellboys Saturday by the edict issued by Mrs. Mary Healey, dictatress of the Louis Quatorze salle de bain that serves Lowell House for a dining room. Mrs. Healey laid down the law that no women were to be allowed to enter the dining room after 6:45 o'clock. The implication is that women talk so much that they eat slower than men, preventing the waitresses from leaving until late...
...second week of Prohibition (aqua variety) began in South Hadley yesterday, rumors of revolt against the totalitarians anti-bathing edict of President Roswell G. Ham seeped into the outside world...
Weeks and weeks without any rain in South Hadley finally reduced President Roswell G. Ham to issuing a stern edict forbidding the Maids of the Mount to use water for any except the most vital presonal needs. No baths or showers will be permitted...