Word: marylander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Allowed dapper Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland, famed Wet, to insert in the Congressional Record a sermon of his great-grandfather, famed Dry. The sermon's subject was national defense...
...Western Maryland's controlling shares owned by John D. Rockefeller Sr. were sold to the B. & O. A 25-year-old ordinance of the City of Baltimore, which once owned the Western Maryland, provides that this road be sold to no railroad that has main terminals in Baltimore or Philadelphia. The intent has been to provide several railroad channels for traffic to the Port of Baltimore. This may handicap the present sale...
...York Central own control of the Philadelphia & Reading. In this particular road Mr. Loree has potent rights. This is important, for the Philadelphia & Reading controls the Central R. R. of New Jersey, the railroad that owns the finest port facilities in New York Harbor. The Western Maryland sale keeps Mr. Loree away from the South. The Wheeling & Lake Erie sale is not so important...
...Maryland legislators have hearkened to cinema exhibitors who want a law passed permitting cinema shows on Sunday. Last week the legislators heard from Archbishop Michael Curley of Baltimore, temperate, blunt. Said the Archbishop: A Catholic survey of 404 motion pictures showed this number of scenes-marital infidelity, 117; struggles of girls to defend honor, 113; divorce as remedy for marital ills, 38; drinking, 140; smoking by girls, 82; indecent dancing, 97; immodest dress, 172; undue sex familiarity, 192. The legislators, he summarized, "should get rid of smut on week days before transferring it to Sunday...
...relay team, running a mile race against Yale and Maryland, was only able to get third place. The team, composed of Captain E.C. Haggerty '27, A.H.O'Neil '28, W.C. Peet '28 and R.N., Ryan '28, put up a hard battle, but found the competition too fast. Maryland won the event in three minutes twenty-eight and four fifths seconds...