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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down upon El Paso's 217 bars last week swooped ten inspectors dispatched by the Texas Liquor Control Board to enforce the State law against the sale of hard liquor by the drink. El Paso never took Prohibition very seriously because Mexico's gay Juarez was always just across the Rio Grande River over 2^ toll bridges. Lately the city has been wide-open in defiance of State law. What annoyed the city's barkeepers last week was that the inspectors arrived two days before the 40th annual convention of the American National Livestock Association brought...
From an anonymous donor, the museum received ten drawings by Luini, Perugino, Raphael, Rubens, Van Dyck, and other old masters from the Oppenheimer Sale of art works in London last summer. Outstanding in a large number of gifts of sculpture were a monumental Japanese figure of the 15th century donated by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, of Washington, a 13th century Gothic tomb figure in wood from Spain, donated as a memorial to the late Professor A. Kingsley Porter, and a bronze statuette of a champion stallion from Herbert Haseltine, the sculptor...
...refusing to make personal appearances to encourage the sale of "Old Champ" liniment. Negro Pugilist Jack Johnson was sued for $360.96 damages by his partner, Morris Botwen. Boxer Johnson declared the liniment Partner Botwen was marketing was not the same good "Old Champ" he had given friends for years to "cure toothaches, headaches or any other kind of ache...
...accept 25 shipments of horse collars & harness which it had refused. But the issue at stake was far bigger than it looked. The railroad's refusal was based on the Ashurst-Sumners Act, passed in 1935, forbidding the shipment of convict-made goods into states which forbid its sale...
...raised hopes in all those who want to revive NRA. For the Court had apparently given Congress carte blanche to forbid traffic in interstate commerce in any goods not produced under standards of minimum wages, maximum hours of labor, etc. etc., provided states can be induced to forbid the sale of such goods within their own borders...