Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course it would be rash to say that prohibition will never be enforced. Perhaps if children, as President Coolidge suggests, are educated with the camel as their ideal, the land may one day be completely dried up. But with the Atlantic seaboard states drinking openly, the South reported to be drinking secretly, and all the farmers through the great dry West brewing their own applejack, the chances of successful enforcement are decidedly meager...
...believe that the President is luke-warm in his Prohibition sentiments nor that he has abetted any relaxation in federal enforcement. The difficulty appears to be that although a majority of the population of the country favor Prohibition, a large and compact minority in one section--along the Atlantic seaboard--not only disapprove of but openly defy this law. When enforcement officers and even the judiciary in this "wet" belt are bought off, execution of the law becomes extremely difficult. In fact the propriety of having so rigid a law is seriously called in question...
...Columbia 3.7 California 25.8 Oregon 24.9 Washington 24.1 Nevada 21.25 Wyoming 20.8 Montana 18.5 Colorado 17.9 Massachusetts 17.8 Connecticut 17.2 Idaho 17.0 Ohio 16.8 Mississippi ranked last with about 4%. This rating places a group of seven Western states at the head of the list. Only two Atlantic seaboard states get into the first twelve- no Southern states whatever. The South in general stood last. Mr. Reeder declared that the ranking of the states in magazine-reading is about the same as their ranking in intelligence obtained by Army psychology tests during the War. There are two factors which perhaps...
Before the War Bulgaria had a large sea frontage on the Aegean. But the Treaty of Neuilly gave this to Greece. Thus the Bulgarian seaboard was confined exclusively to the Black Sea. At the same time, however, the Allies promised Bulgaria an outlet on the Aegean; it being recognized that such an outlet was an economic necessity. In 1921 the Allies made Bulgaria an offer of an enclave on the Aegean coast; this was unacceptable to her without a corridor through Western Thrace to the Bulgarian border. Last week, Professor Zankov, new Bulgarian Premier, accused the Powers of bad faith...
...fields. With very faulty but not uncommon judgment, the house began to float petroleum securities in the boom of 1919-20. Heavy losses were sustained in Simms Petroleum, which took a greater toll from supposed "Wall Street insiders" than from the general public. The last venture was in Mexican Seaboard, whose sharp drop was the occasion of the firm's insolvency. Rumors caused a run of frightened customers and the failure became inevitable...