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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Night" directed by Mrs. Boole, who announced that the war was interfering with the society's work, tied white ribbons on the wrists of twelve infants whose mothers pledged them to total abstinence, minimized the loss of Tennessee from the dry column, re-elected Mrs. Smith president, went home to their dry houses...
...deplored "unsocial" conditions in some bars, with an eye on such sleepless adversaries as Mrs. Boole's W.C.T.U., pointed proudly to their good housekeeping in cleaning up dubious dispensaries (resulting in the suspension of 120 licenses in seven States), elected tanned, towering, outdoorsy Carl Baden-hausen president, went home to their breweries...
...four weeks and any German recruit was permitted to marry without the usual lengthy investigation of his race and ancestry on simple presentation of his mobilization card. To keep open as many hospital beds as possible for wounded soldiers, German doctors were ordered to deliver pregnant women at home rather than in hospitals for the duration of the war, except desperate cases of obstetric complications...
...bases" shall be leased by Latvia as the Red Air Force and Army may later require, while the Red Navy leases bases in the ports of Libau and Windau. Again J. Stalin demanded exchange of ratifications within six days, but departing Foreign Minister Munters was not simply packed off home by air as Mr. Selter had been. The Moscow railway station was decked with Latvian and Soviet flags, a Red Army guard of honor snapped to salute and a Soviet band was provided, possibly because the Dictator rather likes M. and Mme Munters, both of whom speak Russian. He gave...
...November 8, 1914, the Emden was caught off Cocos Islands by the Australian cruiser Sydney and set afire. Captain Miiller was captured, but his crew escaped ashore, hid in the jungle for weeks, found an old whaler, the Ayesha, refitted her, sailed 12,000 miles home around the Cape, dodging British destroyers through the Channel in a providential...