Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Corruption is not a party liability"-if you can ignore your accusers long enough, or play martyr...
Federal authorities last week boarded and seized the gambling ship Johanna Smith, anchored seven miles off Long Beach, Calif. (TIME, Aug. 27.) A statute of 1793, providing forfeiture of a ship engaged in any trade other than that for which licensed, was invoked. The Johanna Smith, licensed for coastal trade, had 13 gaming tables aboard, 38 slot machines, with fast launches to ferry visitors to and from shore...
...what is called an uneventful trip. The ship (long, tall, narrow, beautiful Ile de France) lurched. There were no accidents (except for 200 chairs and 12 people which toppled upon each other at a cinema), no thefts, no speed records...
...later he was presented with that very object by M. Léon Meyer, Mayor of Havre. It was a gold pen, nearly a foot long, a half inch in diameter, surmounted by a turquoise, and made by famed Jeweler André Falize of Paris. Visitor Kellogg accepted it graciously, found it heavy, noticed his initials engraved upon it, and read the inscription on its green leather case: Si Vis Pacem Par Pacem (If you wish for Peace, prepare for Peace...
...that I am not altogether insensible to the reference made by the Democratic candidate to the liquor question. When some of my friends in the opposition in the Legislature offered some bitter criticism at the time the Government introduced the Quebec Liquor Act, I replied that before very long our liquor legislation would be copied by the other provinces. ... I did not altogether expect that the day might come when even the U. S. ... should through one of its great public men pay us the compliment of a reference to the excellency of our law." The Act provided...