Word: eighteenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...battered old picture, on being thoroughly renovated and cleaned, was found contrary to general tradition not to represent the Battle of Fribourg but some entirely different combat, which has yet to be identified. Casanova was a celebrated painter of battle scenes who lived in the latter part of the eighteenth century. The picture in question originally belonged to the Conde family, later passed into the hands of Cardinal Fesch, and finally was given to the Lyons Museum who in turn loaned it to the hospital where it has lain forgotten for several decades...
...organization such as the Crusaders. His point is well taken when he mentions the 32 breweries supporting the Association against the Prohibition Amendment in 1928, but he seems to overlook the fact that prohibition is supported by rum-runners, bootleggers, gangsters, whose "success" in life depends upon the Eighteenth Amendment, as well as by those who honestly believe that prohibition is the right thing...
...complete results of the poll are as-follows: 1. Do you favor a change in the existing prohibition law? Yes: 525, No: 36; 2. Do you favor repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment? Yes: 318, No: 206; 3. Do you favor modification of the Eighteenth Amendment? Yes: 330, No: 118; 4. Do you believe Congressional action through a change of the Volstead Act would be legal and effective? Yes: 309, No: 116; 5. Do you favor the presidential nomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...questions asked on the ballot are as follows: 1. Do you favor a change in the existing prohibition law? 2. Do you favor repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment? 3. Do you favor modification of the Eighteenth Amendment? 4. Do you believe Congressional action through a change of the Volstead Act would be legal and effective? 5. Do you favor the presidential nomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt? Desks for voting will be stationed in Langdell and Austin Halls and the ballots will be signed...
...Dance movements of the eighteenth country, played by Malcolm Holmes '28', Music Building...