Word: north
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...North Dakota entered the Union in 1889 with a Prohibition law among its statutes. In 1915 it voted, by referendum, to make its Dry law more severe. In 1918, its legislature ratified the 18th Amendment by a whacking majority...
Last week, final compilation of another Prohibition referendum in North Dakota, showed that some 86,000 voters were still Dry, that some 82,000 voters wanted to repeal the State enforcement law. Repealers were in the majority in two of North Dakota's three Congressional districts...
Jubilant, the Association against the Prohibition Amendment announced that it would help elect two Wet Congressmen from historically Dry North Dakota this autumn...
Capt. Sir James Charles, 33-year veteran and Commodore of the Cunard fleet, brought the flagship Aquitania through a bitter gale, "one of the worst ever," on his last westward passage. A graduate of the wind-jammers, he has crossed the North Atlantic 726 times, covered 2,323,200 nautical miles. Much-respected, much-loved, burly Capt. Sir James retires to grow cabbages...
They were in the air for more than two days, within one minute of 52 hours, before they landed at Point Genipabu, ten miles north of Natal, Brazil, having flown 4,417 miles* to give Dictator Mussolini his third major record of the year...