Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Write six Dry mottoes. (Samples: "Let us use alcohol, not waste it." "Law makers must not be lawbreakers." "The Eighteenth Amendment stands for better 'boys and better business." "Is Prohibition a success? Ask the bankers. Ask the Salvation Army. Ask the social workers. Ask the mothers. ASK EVERYBODY...
...teach the Eighteenth Amendment? The Government's message to you. It began: "You realize a great difference for what . . . we will call 'temperance' teaching. . . . The Government needs the help and cooperation of every teacher from Maine to California ... in developing a consciousness of the proper attitude toward this law...
...Ambassador Dawes was again the target of every glance at Oxford's musty Sheldonian Theatre. In a black velvet hat and the scarlet gown and hood of a Doctor of Civil Law, he sat on the platform while the Public Orator of Oxford University, Dr. Arthur Blackburne Poynton, presented him as a "Missionary of peace and harmony among Nations...
Film Quota. Vital to U. S. business was the interminable debate on France's film quota law, a law providing that only four foreign films (instead of seven, as now) may be imported into France for each French film produced. U. S. film men, when passage of the law seemed certain several weeks ago, threatened to withdraw all films from France at once. French exhibitors, knowing their patrons' preference for U. S. films, immediately protested. The quota law hung fire...
...legislative fluke last week made it legally possible for Wilhelm of Doorn to re-enter Germany. The means by which Wilhelm's exile has been maintained is the famed "Kaiser Clause" in the Law for the Defense of the Republic, which expires July 21, making residence in Germany of the onetime ruler dependent on the will of the Reichstag. Since the bill involves a change in the German Constitution, a two-thirds majority is always necessary to renew it. Bickering between Communists and Nationalists last week brought a final vote of 268 in favor of the law...