Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Women's Organization for Prohibition Reform, founded by Crusader Sabin's mother (TIME, June 10), has about $200,000 for this campaign. The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, headed by Major Henry Hastings Curran (TIME, April 28, et seq.~), already has spent about $600,000. Estimate of organized Wet expenditures this year: $ 1,000,000. Estimated Anti-Saloon League campaign -expenditures: about...
Arizona's suit, on a par in importance with the Great Lakes diversion controversy (TIME, Nov. 22, 1926, et seq.), did not cause the U. S. to delay its construction plans. Declared President Hoover: "The letting of contracts . . . will proceed as rapidly as possible. The determination of the points of law raised by Arizona will be expedited. ... In the meantime I am in hopes that the States may get together and compose their differences...
...Neither of the "Press Peers," Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere, cares a hoot for "Civilization." The Daily Express (Beaverbrook) merely hung upon Legs a second screaming series of articles about "American desperadoes" (the first series was hung on the shooting of Alfred ["Jake"] Lingle in Chicago-TIME, June 16 et seq.). Meanwhile the Daily Mail (Rothermere) hired Edgar Wallace, No.1 British crime fictioneer, to write: "I have been out-Wallaced by recent factual happenings in the United States...
Announcement will be made later concerning a lecture by Monsieur Auguste V. Desclos, Assistant Director, Office National des Universites et Ecoles Francalses, to be given on the evening of Thursday, December 4 in the parlor of Phillips Brooks House. M. Desclos will speak on "The French Educational System...
...pipes and tanks, and of a board, covered with levers, buttons and gauges beside which stood Dr. Georges Claude, French academician. After three years of patient work, Dr. Claude was ready to give the first public demonstration of his method for taking Power from the sea (TIME, Sept. 22 et ante...