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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harry Canter lived in East Boston. He was a Radical. He was the Communist candidate for Secretary of State. When the Radicals held a political demonstration last November in front of the State House, within which was Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller, Harry Canter participated by marching around carrying a placard which said: "FULLER-MURDERER OF SACCO AND VANZETTI." Harry Canter was arrested. To the policemen he said: "Law isn't made for the workingman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Massachusetts | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...more state-Wisconsin-withdrew last week from, the field of Prohibition enforcement, handed the drying-up job back to the U. S., joined New York, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, on theWet sidelines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wet Wisconsin | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...April blizzard Wisconsin held a referendum on the question of repealing its State Enforcement Act. The voters called for the repealer by a 142,000 majority. The Drys blamed the blizzard, saying that farmers had been kept from the polls. With its members singing "How Dry I Am!'' and "Sweet Adeline," the State Assembly repealed the enforcement act. The senate followed suit. Last week Governor Walter Jodok Kohler, "in fulfillment of the mandate of the people," signed the repealer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wet Wisconsin | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...illegal for two oilmen in one State to agree with two oilmen in another State to limit their joint production of crude petroleum. Their agreement, the U. S. holds, is a conspiracy in restraint of trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSERVATION: Oil Contrivance | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...perfectly legal for the first two men to make an oil-production agreement within their State, and the other two men to make a similar agreement within their State, and then for the two States to join those agreements together into an interstate compact or treaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSERVATION: Oil Contrivance | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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