Word: ington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost every U.S. city has on the books a clutter of old, obscure laws that are hardly ever enforced. In Wash ington, D.C., for example, it is illegal to sell an ice-cream cone. A law to that effect was passed by Congress in 1921 and signed by Woodrow Wilson on his last full day in office as President of the U.S. Designed to protect the public against spoilage, the law makes it a mi demeanor to sell ice cream in Washington except in easily iced standard units - half pints, pints, quarts...
Gutierrez went to work on his Image of Chile as soon as he arrived in Wash ington last February. He recruited performers, rounded up private companies in Chile as financial angels. Not one cent had to come from the Chilean or U.S. governments. Meantime, the ambassador's wife sent out 15,000 invitations to universities, cultural groups, government and diplomatic officials...
...then, some chain member still flashes signs of the old crusading fire, historically a hallmark of Scripps-Howard papers. Two Scripps-Howard Washington reporters dug up some of the first pay dirt in the Billie Sol Estes scandal. The Wash ington Daily News has crusaded loudly against expensive junkets and payroll padding by U.S. Congressmen. On the editorial side, Scripps-Howard's Washington-based editorialists have come out for sanity in the federal budget, against unilateral tax cuts, against wasting troops in Laos ("We cannot save a far-off country which doesn't care whether it is saved...