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...diversity of Asian immigrants' backgrounds, it is all but impossible to generalize about their experiences in becoming Americans. For many the closest thing to a common hurdle is the daunting necessity of adjusting to a new culture, an especially difficult challenge to non-English speakers. "English is the great prohibitor," says Martha Copenhaver, the director of a Southeast Asian education program in Arlington, Va. "Without it, you can't advance even if you are otherwise qualified...
Died. Dr. Clarence True Wilson, 66, famed Prohibitionist, longtime (1910-36) general secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals; of uremic poisoning, complicated by a heart attack; in Portland, Ore. As leader of the U. S. Prohibition forces, ruddy-faced, goateed Prohibitor Wilson used to stump every State, speak before societies and clubs, at country fairs, on street corners and on emptied beer barrels. Of late he had devoted himself to his hobbies-simplified spelling, cattle breeding, a theory that John Wilkes Booth escaped his pursuers...
Since 1931 no M. P. pledged to Prohibition has sat in Parliament. Last week Arch-Prohibitor Edwin Scrymgeour, who lost his seat in 1931, sat morosely in his Dundee home. Prohibition as a political cause was just about dead in the realm of His Majesty George V, a great whiskey connoisseur. With Bitter-Ender Scrymgeour absent in a huff, the British Prohibition Party had caucused in Dundee for the last time, dissolved...
Bishop James Cannon Jr. stumped the State at the head of a vigorous Prohibitionist faction, told Indianapolitans: ''Indiana is the first State in which we have had an even chance. If we can win here we can prevent Repeal." Day after the voting, resilient Prohibitor Francis Scott McBride was declaring: "The vote in Indiana is heartening to those fighting Repeal. We had decided in advance that anything less than a 2-to-1 victory for Repeal would be a moral victory for us there." He thereupon vanished in Alabama. "The Wets had the support of both the national...
...canes used as wands of authority by Indian medicine men in Panama and northern South America. On the heads of the canes, some of them generations old, are carved statuets of their god of medicine. He is a man who closely resembles the U. S. caricature of Bluenose the Prohibitor. He has a long nose, a high hat and European dress. Some carvings are crude, some masterpieces of wood carving. Herbert W. Krieger, National Museum curator of ethnology, noted that all obviously were intended to portray the same individual, a white...