Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was the story which last week bubbled to the surface of Prohibition news. Charges were made that the U. S. Customs service at New York was lax and incompetent. The Pratt champagne case was cited as proof. The yeast behind the bubbling was, of course, Politics. Against Mr. Pratt were these undenied charges: He had arranged to pay the Go-Bart Co. of New York $14,000 to smuggle in $25,000 worth of champagne purchased in France. The U. S. agent for the champagne was Count Maxence de Polignac, member of one of France's oldest noble...
...bankrupt because of inefficient management and the high cost of protection of life and limb, and the gang wars continue their campaign of terrorization. Ten years of prohibition has resulted in the loss of thousands of lives, the introduction of machine guns, armored cars and well-trained killers. Bullet-proof vests are still very much the vogue among all experienced racketeers. Every worthwhile gangster carries his revolver and the necessary accessories...
...which appears in the issue of the CRIMSON for January 31, 1930. In your column, "The Mail", there is a communication which, aside from its inconclusiveness and characteristically Radcliffian futility, is misleading. It contains an argument, the merits of which are not in question here, supported by alleged "statistical proof". I quote this proof: ".... 57 per cent of the Radcliffe women marry Harvard...
...Lord Byron could hardly have written it more grandly. We understand, of course, that he has investigated the matter thoroughly, and yet--er--we wonder if he has ever tried to get a Radcliffe dormitory on the telephone in the evening? And has he taken into account the statistical proof that 57 per cent of the Radcliffe women marry Harvard men? "They seek no closer association", say you, Mr. Dennis? But, of course, they probably didn't meet in Cambridge--it was while climbing glaciers, or riding the merry-go-round at Coney Island, of course...
...advertisements on display are comprised of the work which has been before the public eye during the past year. The work is grouped according to entries, all the pieces of one sort being placed together. One of the advertisements of local interest is the large Old Gold proof demonstrating the fact that Harvard was the first college where Old Gold failed to win first place in the blindfold test. The work of Norman Rockwell, John Held Jr., and other men whose work has appeared in local and national advertising during the year may now be seen together...