Word: evens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bandit took no jewelry or other valuables. With a loot of no more than $800 he fled. He did not even look into the express car, where the dining car steward was hiding with $300 in cash. Out into the hills to catch the bandit "dead or alive" rode hundreds of searchers?sheriffs, deputies, policemen, railroad detectives, cowboys. Six suspects were rounded up, questioned, released. Then the hunt was abandoned...
...enforcement of Prohibition. Startling was last week's news that U. S. District Judge Joseph William Woodrough at Omaha had placed a large and. to Nebraska, alien obstacle in the path of U. S. dry agents by his ruling that they cannot legally search a domicile without warrant even though they see, hear and smell material evidence...
Said Federal District Attorney James C Kinsler, who prosecuted the case: "The ruling is revolutionary and will be quoted throughout the country in every case based on a raid without a warrant. It is equivalent to saying that an officer cannot break into a house without a warrant even if he can see or hear a felony or even a murder being committed...
...required for board in the Houses will make it impossible to serve meals in the clubhouses. In many cases this can hardly fail to result in the eventual dissolution of the clubs so affected. It is, however, well known that many of the clubs have had pretty hard sledding even under past conditions and that even more have been founded purely as a means of mitigating the unpleasantness of eating around. If the atmosphere in the Houses approximates even to a limited degree the attractiveness hoped for by its well-wishers, no great loss will be suffered if these clubs...
...contention that a shift from club or fraternity houses to the rooms offered by the House System will work an even greater hardship little need be said. President Lowell has repeatedly pointed out that men are not to be forced to enter the Houses. If it so develops that the atmosphere in the Houses is such to attract men to them, the extinction of the clubs involved will be but another example of the sound principal of survival of the fittest...