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...York for president. It is doubtful that prohibition voting at this late day will be significant in any other way than that the legal minds which framed the four questions are peculiarly weak in their knowledge of the constitutional obstacles in the way of repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment...
...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...
...from Europe few weeks ago to discover that their son Peter, 20, had erected a short-wave broadcasting station, KWKY, on their estate at Chester, N. Y. Over it Capitalist Goelet broadcast his views on the Depression, Unemployment, conditions abroad; Mrs. Goelet hers on "Why We Should Repeal the Eighteenth Amendment." Station KWKY hummed merrily until the Federal Radio Commission informed Capitalist Goelet that the unlicensed station was illegal, that it must be dismantled...
There is something in the American temper, something quickly sensed by European visitors, that tolerates an incongrous mixing of the practical and the aesthetic. As early as the eighteenth century, Samuel Sewall's diary records as a matter of course that Sewall's family, on an outing, sang psalms and played games by turns. Indeed, this same trail, together with a good proportion of well-varnished dishonesty, is responsible for the present pitiful condition of American advertising...