Word: foe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women of Massachusetts have gone back into American history in an attempt to maintain prohibition. Paul Revere once saved the country from the British and his double now rides for the sake of the Baby Volstead Act. But the Women's Christian Temperance Union considers liquor a more formidable foe than the British Army for they have called upon divine supplication to assist their re-vamped Revere...
...last three years the Harvard-Army game has always been classified as the test for both teams. Coming as it does early in the season before either team has played another major college foe it is a test that will go a long way to determine the calibre of both of the elevens. But it is not a final determination either. In 1928 Harvard rallied successfully after the 15 to 0 Army defeat to beat Dartmouth the following week and a somewhat questionable Yale team later in the season. Last year a tie with the then powerful Cadet machine...
...County grand jury took revealing testimony (TIME, Aug. 25). Later, Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt started State investigations into the Ewald case and into all Manhattan-&-The Bronx judgeships by Republican Attorney General Hamilton Ward, and by Justice Samuel Seabury for the Appellate Division, a Democrat but an oldtime Tammany foe. Justice Crater was not only a Tammanyman, but also president of the Cayuga Club, had been toastmaster at the dinner celebrating Magistrate Ewald's appointment. But when Attorney Tuttle, apprised of the Justice's disappearance, examined his records, nothing was found to discredit...
Declared S. Stanwood Menken, board chairman of the National Security League, vociferous foe of Communism: "Everywhere I was told that the Communist Government was strong and its stability equal to any in Europe. Their economic program is being carried out with an idealism and sacrifice of which the American people have no true concept. There are 156,000,000 people in Russia and to ignore their desires, wants and governmental stability is to act the foolish ostrich with its head in the sand...
...McCormick's willingness to go along with the Wets if they carried the State stirred the ire of the Drys. An independent Dry ticket headed by Mrs. Lottie Holman O'Neill, longtime McCormick foe. was widely discussed. Such a ticket, it was conceded, might cost Mrs. McCormick many a Dry vote, throw the election to Nominee Lewis...