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...revising the amendment. Some feel that enforcement is possible without any change in the law; others that revision is absolutely necessary in order to make the act effective. They generally agree, however, that, if revision is to take place, the amendment should give Congress power "to regulate or to prohibit the manufacture, traffic in, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, and the exportation thereof from the U.S. and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes...
...members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science gathered for their 87th annual convention. Two thousand scientists read papers ranging in subject from the size & shape of the universe to the sex expression of cucumbers. They adopted a resolution protesting against the bill before Congress to prohibit the use of dogs for vivisection in the District of Columbia. For the first time, a well organized exhibition of research projects was included in the meeting so that scientists could see what they heard. Many were disappointed because their retiring president, Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, chairman of California Institute...
Exporters, Inc. was formed in 1926 to fix the price of copper in Europe, and for a long time U. S. producers seemed to have a gentleman's agreement on price. In copper as in other U. S. industries, however, anti-trust laws prohibit definite price agreements. Copper producers now are attempting to curtail production, but the price was back last week to 10? after its recent jump from 9? to 12? (TIME, Nov. 24). The world copper situation is complicated by potential African production which may soon overbalance U. S. curtailment. Tin. Attempts to curb tin production have...
Students began the revolt by proposing seven rules to the faculty, the first of which demanded that the student senate be empowered to pass on all social rules before they become effective. When the faculty declined to consider the document, the undergraduates struck, tried to prohibit others from attending classes until President Alfred Atkinson got back from a trip to Washington...
...Oregon, a proposal to prohibit the sale, manufacture, transportation or advertisement of cigarets-beaten...