Word: sealed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British ships, touching at American ports in regular business, will have the right to carry their liquor stores into territorial waters under seal without liability to seizure. This is contrary to the Volstead Act, but a treaty has as much the force of law as a Federal statute. So if this treaty is negotiated it will have the force of an amendment to the Volstead Act in favor of the liquor stores of British ships...
...Milan, Signer Giulio Gatti-Casazza, a marine engineer by profession, had taken hold of La Seal a Opera House in a time when that historic institution was in a bad situation, in a couple of years had rehabilitated it in an extraordinary manner, had brought a regime of order and economy, at the same time had increased the quality of performances immensely. Here was the obvious man for the internationally minded Directors of the Metropolitan. Many of their customers thought that they should have patriotically selected an American, but they seemed of the opinion that it was better to save...
Significance. The importance of this symposium is considered to lie in the fact that it marks a line of duty from which individual churches cannot retreat with honor. But the symposium is not a program, it carries no seal of responsibility; it is, however, prophetic of the church, seeking a new creed for a new day, or at least a more valiant and effective application of creeds which...
...carefully cut up and a piece sent to each state of the country and to the District of Columbia and Alaska, chips, perhaps sawdust, will be available for the nervy collector. The tree has been pronounced dead by a tree specialist and its overhanging limbs a menace. The seal of the city of Cambridge will be engraved on one side of each piece of wood sent out while an appropriate inscription will be on the other...
Secretary Hughes suggested that, if a treaty were made for twelve-mile search and seizure, it should also include a provision that foreign ships might come into our territorial waters with liquor under seal. The British reply, while unsympathetic to extension of the three-mile limit, did not preclude further negotiation. It also promised that the proposal would be considered at the Imperial Conference, which opens in London on Oct. 1 (see page...