Word: owning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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But a new situation confronted the Republican committee members who, general revisionists all, were spoiling to get their hands on the bill, to tear apart the House's handiwork, to frame a measure all their own. Farm-state Senators, Republicans and Democrats, had formed a Borah Bloc on the...
Mrs. Strawbridge acknowledged her debt for the idea to Mrs. Edward Beale McLean, wife of the publisher of the Washington Post, who served no liquor at her Easter party to set a law observance fashion and please President Hoover. Mrs. Strawbridge wrote to ladies of Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, New York...
On the Border. On the claim that 85% of Canadian liquor entering the U. S. is run across the Detroit River, Assistant- Secretary of the Treasury Lowman tightened his blockade along that mile-wide stream until it fairly bristled with Dry and Wet armament. Pleasure craft traversed it at their...
But Canada had her own troubles in this liquor war. To Ontario officials came Canadian pleasure-boat owners with complaints of being fired upon on the Detroit River by U. S. customs men. One complainant, no rumrunner, exhibited a boat riddled with bullets.
When he went to school, Manhattan's Mayor James John Walker, world-famed playboy, pulled little girls' pigtails, set tacks on teacher's chair. Last week he was 48. In front of his own City Hall, he turned in a false fire alarm.