Word: limitates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...provided in advance for the contingency-that is, by sailing with small liquor stocks. From the State Department came the suggestion that foreign ships might be allowed to bring in liquor under seal-by treaty-if foreign governments would allow us in return to extend the three mile limit to twelve miles in searching vessels and seizing rum runners...
...present Mr. Mellon's ruling is causing much interesting speculation upon the fate of the proposal for a twelve-mile limit of the right of search and seizure. As yet no word either favorable or unfavorable has come from the nations approached. But wiseacres are nodding their heads and proclaiming that the new ruling was made because rumors, unheard by the public, of determined opposition to the President's reciprocal proposal have come to the government. When Great Britain, insisting upon the universal three-mile limit, has come off victorious so recently in its tiff with Russia, acceptance...
...such ships on the assumption that since the liquor was legally required it was medicinal. Contradictory reports were issued in Washington. British steamships, it was announced, will sail westward henceforward with only half their ordinary cargo of liquors, which will all be disposed of before reaching the threemile limit. A half cargo of liquor for the Majestic, for example, consists of 30,000 bottles of ale, 675 quarts of champagne, 375 quarts of wine, 1,500 bottles of whisky, brandy and gin, and 150 bottles of liqueurs. One report has it that British companies are asking their future passengers...
...over the trend of British policy in connection with reparations settlement. It is known that Premier Baldwin will base his plan on the 62-year settlement of the British war debt to the United States, that he will strongly back the moratorium demanded by Germany and that he will limit the maximum demands on Germany to about...
...have had some immediate objective for each week of practice this spring since the beginning of the season, and have shown a steady improvement in each of their contests. They will, however, enter the meet Saturday with the odds somewhat against them and will have to go to the limit to make a successful showing against the powerful Yale team...