Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...apple, press the ripe fruit, catch the juice, hoard it away. When winter comes they have a convivial cup. Long and loudly have urbanites protested this disparity of Prohibition. Last week city men envied country men when Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran issued to his agents this edict: "The National Prohibition act authorizes . . . unrestricted manufacture of non-intoxicating cider and fruit juice in the home. . . . Conditions: . . . 1) it shall be non-intoxicating in fact; 2) it shall be exclusively for home use . . . 3) it shall not be sold or delivered except with a vinegar permit. . . . Nor will you interfere with...
...executive office lobby went Clark Brown of Climax, Mich. He, too, had a manner and for three hours sat at a table scribbling a message to the President. He went away to return again at noon, insistent upon putting in the Hoover hand his message?"The Final Edict of Heaven and Earth." When he was stopped, he became violent, lost his manner, tussled until bodyguards overpowered and hospitalized him. Hoover bodyguards are now on their toes, manner or no manner...
Though drastic censorship precluded exact knowledge of what was taking place, a symposium of rumors confirmed reports that His Majesty had proclaimed the termination of all "reforms"-such as the edict requiring men to wear pants (TIME, Sept. 10)-and was making desperate efforts to rally his troops and recover the loyalty of his people as a whole...
...rising wrath of the cloistered dwellers in the vicinity of Harvard hall will make them feel a regretful sympathy with Princeton men at the recent edict in regard to bells and clappers. Edward A. McMillan, orange counterpart of Mr. Apted, has recently raised the fine imposed on pilferers of the college clapper from thirty to fifty dollars. So rudely does one of Princeton's fine old traditions suffer a financial reverse. At Harvard twins and their overshadowing elder brothers...
...slightest intimations have lifted stocks nearly 40 points. His name, linked with the Du Pont interests, has been synonymous with a mysterious but potent pool operating in market leaders. Amazing, almost traitorous, appeared this statement, released on the very day the 5,400 bankers were preparing their formal edict...