Word: phase
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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PROHIBITION No Beverage Poisoning is a grim, sordid phase of Prohibition. The most rabid anti-salooner would find it hard to vilify a lawbreaker who went shrieking to death with poison scourging his entrails. Last week an epidemic of poison liquor deaths struck Manhattan. John Becak, wagon driver for the Morgue, said he never had such a busy week. During three days 33 persons succumbed. Most of the deaths were caused by wood alcohol. Most of them occurred on the lower east side waterfront. The city police arrested purveyors of a decoction known as "smoke" which sells...
...military phase of the Nationalist Revolution is victoriously terminated. Everything now depends upon a continued spirit of unity among the people and within the Party. . . . Party members, when dissatisfied with any branch of the National Administration, should first advance their views in a friendly spirit in the expectation that it will be accepted. Failing this they may try the proper recourse through party headquarters. When such measure again fails, pressure may be brought to bear upon the Central Executive Committee of the party to reorganize the whole Government. But on no occasion shall party members attempt directly to interfere with...
...most important factors in the formation of America and at the same time one now almost completely misunderstood is that of Puritanism. Those who have any interest in increasing their knowledge about this phase of American life have a choice of lectures today which discuss the Puritan civilization from different points of view. Professor R. B. Perry speaks at 10 o'clock in Emerson D on "The Critique of Puritanism," and at the same hour Professor Murdock will discuss "The Mathers" in Harvard...
...would not only stand no chance of election this year, but he would probably be politically dead, especially to himself. What the Roosevelt nomination meant, to the Brown Derby, how the local "situation" stood, was bound to become as familiar to the national electorate as many a broader phase of the national campaign. It was this...
Though General von Ludendorff may be merely passing through a phase of mental aberration, he has been at least temporarily cold-shouldered by all of the political associates who, less than a year ago, acknowledged his leadership as head of an extreme Monarchist faction in the Reichstag...