Word: saints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since that time the Congress has edged up on prohibition in many ways, hopes to make British India bone dry to Indians some day. Prompted by Saint Gandhi and guided by Coordinator Patel, Congress provincial governments have outlawed the distillation, sale and consumption of liquor in numerous small experimental areas. In other places bars and liquor shops have been closed on pay days, thus making it more likely that the Hindu workman will get home with his salary before spending it on coconut toddy, a sort of ancient moonshine which is his favorite cheap drink...
...Paris street scenes of Maurice Utrillo through the loophole, ruling that they were copies of postcards, therefore commercial rather than original art, therefore dutiable at 15% of the price they fetched in France. Duty was applied specifically on one importation of Manhattan's Perls (pronounced perils) Galleries, Rue Saint-Vincent a Montmartre; and on a score imported by the Valentine Galleries for a show which opened this week. Both galleries paid and appealed...
...Wednesday the team leaves for Saint Marguerite, Quebec, to take part in the four-day Eastern Intercollegiate Championships. Captain Hinton, Harry W. Hollmeyer '40, Karl Porges '41, and Joseph B. Thomas will compete in the slalom and downhill races and Lindley J. Burton '42, Alfred W. Elpper '42, Captain Hinton, and Richard F. Whittemore '40 are entered in the cross country and jumping...
Brazil's Sebastian Cardinal Leme da Silveira Cintra, who reminded his visitors of New York's late saintly Cardinal Hayes, greeted them as "spiritual ambassadors." Archbishop Pedro Pascual Farfan of Lima, Peru-an ancient Catholic city which produced the first American saint, St. Rose-addressed Bishop Ryan and Father Sheehy with florid Spanish courtesy, insisted that they sit upon thrones at a reception...
Because St. Patrick is patron saint of the Cathedral and Archdiocese of New York, Bishop-Administrator Stephen J. Donahue gave all Roman Catholics in the Archdiocese permission to eat meat on Friday. March 17, St. Patrick...