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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated and debated the House appropriations bill for the Treasury and Post Office departments; put in a joker for $270,000,000 to enforce prohibition at Senator Bruce's instigation; sent it to conference; adopted the conference report, taking out the joker and leaving $13,500,000 for prohibition, by vote of 38 to 35; sent the bill to the President. Said Senator Bruce: "The way to get rid of a bad law is to enforce...
...having illness suggestive of the above are urged to report to the Medical Adviser at Wadsworth House or to send for him to call upon them in order that preventive measures may promptly taken. This is urged particularly in the case of men returning to Cambridge from places where Influenza is now epidemic...
...much the smugglers and their customers spend is a matter for guesswork. But Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, U. S. Assistant Attorney-General, was able to put a figure, in her annual report, on at least one item-$18,883,541 worth (Canadian value) of Canadian whiskies exported to the U. S. in 1928. Previous years: 1925, 10.7 millions; 1926, 15.4 millions; 1927, 17.1 millions...
...quiet, pointed talks get stamina to suppress disease within their districts. But six or seven states are so careless of their epidemiological work that their statistics are rarely considered in Dr. Cumming's survey of the nation's health. In the two score and more who habitually report, last year there were 4,000 needless deaths from measles, 7,000 from whooping cough. Infantile paralysis was a scourge chiefly because its prodromal symptoms are ignored and its after-effects ignorantly fought...
Celebrating its 50th anniversary last week, with an edition extraordinary, the Post-Dispatch pointed with pride to 50 years of championing. Among other achievements, the Post-Dispatch was one of the few papers in the country which was not deceived by the premature report of the Armistice ten years ago, and while the city went wild stood steadfastly by its guns...