Word: novae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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East: Harvard v. Yale at Cambridge; N. Y. U. v. Rutgers at New York; Army v. Ohio Wesleyan at West Point; Navy v. West Virginia Wesleyan at Annapolis; Fordham v. Bucknell at New York; Brown v. New Hampshire at Providence; Lehigh v. Lafayette at Bethlehem; Villa Nova v. North Carolina State at Philadelphia...
...flat and fertile Ontario and along the fish-flanked coast of Nova Scotia, voters were confronted with liquorish problems last week. Ontario's problem was whether or not to retain the Conservative Government of Premier George Howard Ferguson and in particular his beloved L. C. A. (Liquor Control Act) under which government liquor stores dole out their wares to the relief of the citizenry, to an annual profit of some $20,000,000 for the Provincial Treasury. Canadian Drys, Ontario Liberals and Progressives cried out against "Conservative wetness and corruption." Premier Ferguson pleaded chiefly, and successfully...
...Nova Scotia, Premier Edgar Nelson Rhodes posed two liquorish problems: No. 1: Are you in favor of the retention of the Nova Scotia Temperance Act? No. 2: Are you in favor of the sale of liquor† under government control...
Thousands of logical Nova Scotians answered only one question, evidently felt that in so doing they had answered the other by implication. Despite all confusion, results showed a clear Wet majority on both questions. In beaming anticipation of liquor-tax funds for his treasury. Premier Rhodes exulted...
...With Nova Scotia gone Wet, Ontario confirmed in wetness, the little province of Prince Edward Island with a population less than Yonkers, N. Y., is the only part of Canada which has not cast off prohibition. U. S. Wets could not forbear to gloat last week. Cried President Henry H. Curran of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment...