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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yesterday. The Anti-Saloon League, in convention, voted to forego the undercover method of ensuring enforcement by exerting strong pressure on Government officials, a method used so effectively by the late Wayne B Wheeler. Hereafter it will make a frontal attack with publicity, educational campaigns, and an attempt to answer and condemn all "wet" literature and periodicals. This change is hardly the result of the Hearst disclosures, but springs from the general public feeling against high-handed bureaucracy. Certainly it will ease the hearts and slow the pens of many who thought the League was leagued with the Devil...
Four members of the Senior class have been appointed to serve on the Senior Nominating Committee in addition to those appointed recently, it was announced at a late hour last night by the retiring officers of the class...
...especially as to the powers of the Council over undergraduates and undergraduate organizations, of which the college as a whole seems to have been entirely ignorant. Some of these provisions are so out of keeping with the spirit of Harvard government that some comment apon them appears imperative. The late hour last night at which the Council released its new charter made any reprint or comment impossible in today's issue...
Died. Giovanni Cardinal Bonzano, 60, onetime (1912-22) Apostolic Delegate from Rome to the U. S.; in Rome; after an operation a fortnight ago. He it was who as liason official arranged for an exchange of letters between Piux X (who sought to end the World War) and the late President Woodrow Wilson...
Died. Sir Robert Arundell Hudson, secretary of the (British) Liberal Central Association for 32 years, architectural expert and engineer. Twice married, his second wife was the widow of the late Lord Northcliffe, famed British editor & publisher, who died in 1922. Just before his death, it is rumored, Lord Northcliffe instructed his wife that, in case she remarried, his preference would be that she marry his intimate friend Sir Robert Arundell Hudson. This she did within a year...