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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be folly to deny that the Wets' have made considerable gain in the past few years. . . . The defeat of Governor Smith did nothing to allay the sentiment against Prohibition. Instead it produced what might be called an emotional hangover. . . . The candidacy of Governor Smith was beneficial to the cause of Prohibition. Before he became a candidate the prohibition and temperance organizations had been disintegrating...
...Collar Son. Significantly in the party of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas last week was their son A. J. Thomas. He met them when they landed from the S.S. Duchess of Athol at Quebec. He is one of the Mother Country's sons who have come over in the past five years to take a job with Daughter Canada. His job is Assistant to the Director of Shop Methods of the Canadian National Railways...
...week with worried tourists struggling for tickets and berths to Paris, Berlin, Prague, Milan?almost anywhere away from Austria. Normally U. S. tourists keep to their spartan schedule of cathedrals, art galleries, shops, with complete disregard of local politics. But since three bloody riots have been staged in the past fortnight by Austria's two pugnacious, irregular armies?the socialist Schutzbund and the reactionary Heim-wehr (TIME, Aug. 19)?and moreover since a third riot resulted in 48 woundings and three deaths, even the most earnest gallery-gazers felt it wise to leave Vienna...
...Past 50, Madame Londe's good looks were on the wane. In public a studied smile corrected the arrogant sag of her mouth and she gave change like charity. Madame Londe supplied needs other than gastronomic ones. For her customers she was breaking in Fernande, 13, who sniggered when tickled. Angèle, older, reliable, was more popular. Only Angèle could answer inquisitive Madame Londe's "whys" about the customers. Somehow Madame Londe did not set Angèle to probe this reticent stranger Guèret. Yet it was Angèle who attracted Guèret nightly to the restaurant's neighborhood...
...second was the Breslau Student Socialist Society, of which he soon became chairman. Finding one night, that the police were on his trail for editing a radical weekly, he left for Switzerland, radical retreat, then for New York via steerage where he was admitted past the Statue of Liberty after some demur over his appearance. Living with a friend in Brooklyn, he found work two hours away as $12-a-week draughtsman for solemn, pouchy-eyed Rudolf Eichemeyer of Yonkers, himself a political refugee turned manufacturer of hat machinery and the first successful (Otis) elevator motor...