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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...New York's a pretty fine city though, don't you think?" The question was put with intent to lead...
...New York," he said with a sigh and a rapt look in his face. "I'll say it's a good town. Wish I could get down there. But there is one trouble with New York. There's so much competition. It's terrible. There ought to be a law against...
...bootleggers up in the cellar and let 'em go for two dollars apiece. Why don't they try 'em? Listen, the men won't pay a fine of more than five dollars; they'll fight it out and they know that if they're selling decent stuff that no New York jury would ever convict 'em. It's much cheaper for the 'feds' not to press the charge. Sure sounds funny to a guy that works in this g--state...
...Incidentally, you'd be interested in a swell story I heard the other day about a trial out in New Jersey. This fellow was up on a charge of selling beer. The defense was that it wasn't more than one half percent and they'd leave it to the jury to decide. The jury took the whole batch of beer, about 50 bottles or so into the jury room. About three hours later they came out well plastered, and damned if they didn't render a decision of guilty." The lawyer for the defence jumped up and said 'Those...
There are things in New Haven which Harvard men cannot understand, there are things in Cambridge which the men from Yale look upon with astonishment and a certain sceptical disdain. But there is one point upon which the men of both institutions are equally agreed; they want to make the Harvard Yale game the finest sporting event in the country...