Word: returns
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...strict enforcement despite the fact that the affirmative had defined the question as involving Mayor Low's subjective attitude toward the law. It was maintained that the law cannot be repealed; that strict enforcement was contrary to Mayor Low's promises and if attempted would result in a return to Tammany rule; and, finally, that actual conditions in New York life were of such a nature that judicial enforcement was justifiable theoretically, morally and practically...
...arresting the violator. There is no active public sentiment behind the law demanding its enforcement and according to District Attorney Jerome, there are 250,000 people ready to violate the law. Yet again the instrument of enforcement, the police, is corrupt and accustomed to receive money in return for protection. Still further there are 13,000 saloons and only 2,500 policemen on duty at one time. Mr. Low in his letter to Dr. Parkhurst shows how the illegal sale goes on outside of saloons when an attempt is made to close them. "Arrangements are soon made by which liquor...
Paul Revere Hall, a man about town, Professor Lasher, a geologist, and Obediah Ham, a grind, go to the polar regions together to see Hi-Kaya, the chief of the northern tribe, and prevail upon him to return with them to America. In the second act they are seen at Sheepshead Bay race track. In the third act they become involved in international complications in the polar regions. English, German, French and Austrian warships with their officers are trying to get possession of the country, but finally relinquish their claims to the United States. The sentimental part of the play...
...walks conducted by Dr. Jaggar, will be to Nobscot Mountain and the country in the vicinity of Wayside Inn and the Sudbury River. The party will leave the square by electric car at 8.45 this morning, and will take from Trinity Place the 9.19 train for Saxonville. On the return the men will reach Cambridge...
...Natural History Walk, conducted by Dr. Jaggar. The Plum Island Dunes. Leave Boston 9 a.m. for Newburyport, Eastern Division B. & M. R. R. Return 5.37 p.m. Arrive at Boston 6.45 p.m. Take luncheon...