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...land through the Wisconsin back country. The Wisconsin Board claimed that the Texas land was no good, that it had been misrepresented by its boosters. When the Board found that its own secretary, John L. Newman, had defied its edict by purchasing a ten-acre citrus farm in the forbidden valley, it promptly discharged...
...vested by the sealing treaty of 1911 between Japan, Great Britain, U. S. and Russia, are allowed to kill Pribilof seals while migrating. Indians are allowed to do so only in canoes, manned by five or less hunters, armed with spears or harpoons. Power boats and firearms are forbidden. Last year hunters killed about 2,000 members of the Pribilof herd...
...Baths Society of Monaco), better known as the Monte Carlo gambling casino syndicate, has its own currency- round and oval celluloid chips (jetons) of various colors and denominations which the Casino sells for cash, to be used at the gaming tables and afterward redeemed for cash. Although strictly forbidden as legal tender outside the Casino, almost anyone nearby who frequents the Casino will accept them as such...
...laws will be enforced and that our Constitution will be respected and that open deflance of the Constitution is a form of treason, it will then be time to modify the provisions of the Volstead Act and to declare that only beverages that are in fact intoxicating shall be forbidden...
Declaring that prohibition is a "stupit compromise in which liquor is forbidden in order to please the drys, and obtainable in order to satisfy the wets," and stating with commendable simplicity that "the majority of students, at least in the East, have been breaking the (prohibition) law," The Harvard Crimson has enlisted the aid of the Harvard Debating Council in a crusade to rid the country of the existing enforcement laws for the Eighteenth Amendment. The debators have formulated their own "plan for the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment," and the journalists are laboring mightily to crystallize undergraduate opinion behind...