Word: fifthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to Dr. Doran and his men, smuggling by sea has been suppressed to one-eighth or one-fifth of what it used to be when Rum Rows twinkled off the coasts at Christmas time. According to Mrs. Willebrandt, the Canadian traffic "continues to be unsolved." It is on that front that the Prohibiters will work hardest next year. A step projected is to revise the U. S.-Canadian anti-smuggling treaty, which now provides only that Canada shall advise the U. S. of liquor clearances from her ports. Perhaps Canada will be induced to declare it illegal...
...fifth member of the Committee will be chosen from among W. R. Maclaurin '29, H. H. Proctor '29, and G. A. Weller '29, who tied for sixth place in the balloting. The Committee will elect a chairman after the fifth man has been chosen...
Married. Laurence Gouverneur Hoes, of Washington, great-great-grandson of James Monroe, fifth President of the U. S.; and Ingrid Westesson of Washington, daughter of a Swedish mining engineer; in Washington...
...them), with all of which he is quaintly press-shy. His fortune has come from public utilities, which he developed, not as a sportsman but as a shrewd businessman, and which may now exceed a round hundred millions. He lives at Glen Cove, Long Island, and in the Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, town house of the late Elbert H. Gary, which he purchased last spring...
...large section of the Fifth Estate, that world company of scientists, climbed the Allegheny Mountains to Pittsburgh last week. They knew soft coal, what it was and what could profitably be done with it and were answering the call to the Second International Conference on Bituminous Coal made by President Thomas Stockham. Baker of Carnegie Institute of Technology...