Word: eighteenth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...thorny prohibition problem has often been compared to the "untroubled" course which liquor regulation has taken in other countries. England seems to have been consistently a subject of envy among those opposed to the Eighteenth Amendment. A few months ago the Association against the Prohibition Amendment issued a pamphlet under the encouraging title, "England's Solution of the Liquor Problem." The view taken is typical of many advocates of repeal...
Reds. Ordered by the President of China into Kiangsi Province "to suppress the Reds" (TIME, Jan. 19), the Eighteenth Army Division was surrounded last week and disarmed. It promptly deserted en masse to the Chinese Red Army of Kiangsi which recently massacred with amazing ferocity 100,000 persons...
General Chang Chi-tsan, Commander of the deserting Eighteenth, was held by his captors for $2,000,000 (Mex.) ransom. Appalled, the President of China despatched four army divisions to Red, rebellious Kiangsi...
After more than a year of study the Wickersham Committee has arrived at some conservative but constructive conclusions. It agrees that the eighteenth amendment should not be repealed, that light wines and beer should not he allowed, and that the present enforcement is inadequate. But there is division of opinion on the question of revising the amendment. Some feel that enforcement is possible without any change in the law; others that revision is absolutely necessary in order to make the act effective. They generally agree, however, that, if revision is to take place, the amendment should give Congress power...
Last week a portion of the Eighteenth Nationalist Army Division under General Chang Chi-tsan was entirely surrounded by Communist forces in Kiangsi, faced annihilation according to despatches from Shanghai...