Word: suits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, Miss Gaston's major achievement began to be undone. The lower house of the Kansas legislature voted, 83 to 35, to repeal the anti-cigaret law. The State Senate is expected to follow suit; Governor Paulen say's he will sign the bill. Kansans had long been ashamed of this law. They could not enforce it; bootleggers simply sold cigarets for 25c instead of 15c; Missourians jested at their alleged smokeless neighbor, sent thousands of cigaret cartons across the border...
...China have spread the doctrine of revolution by giving prominence to American history textbooks. From these many Chinese have gotten the idea that a new era dawned on the world when the American colonies broke away from England. Believing that American greatness began with revolution, the Chinese have followed suit with revolutionary movements of their own. . . . Someone ought to protest against such dissemination in the Orient of the poisonous idea that revolution is a necessary antecedent to prosperity...
Last week in a hotel ballroom in Detroit, was continued the tax suit whereby Secretary of the Treasury Mellon hopes to take some $34,000,000 from Senator James Couzem and the other Ford stockholders who sold out to Henry and Edsel Ford in 1919 (TiME, Jan. 17). Young Alexander W. Gregg, chief counsel for the Government, waged a highly technical battle with the defense attorneys among some 10,000 exhibits. But the public eye centred on that exhibit which told of the earnings of the Ford Motor Co. from 1904 to 1919. The figures...
...Henry F. Sullivan who swam the English Channel in 1923, and Clarabelle Barrett, the Pelham, N. Y., schoolmistress who stayed in the water of the English Channel 24 hours, and Mrs. Charlotte Moore Schoemmel (Manhattan favorite), very greasy, and Jean McKenzie who also refused to wear any bathing suit. There had been some trouble about these nude ones-preacher-men declared that, if the bodies of these athletes were exposed to view, there must be something indecent about the race...
...long standardized that the Manhattan first nighters knew just where to laugh. The surprise of the performance was Helen Lowell. In the serious part of the wife in God Loves Us earlier this season she won praise. Now she comes prancing on to the stage in a comic swimming suit, her face plastered with cosmetic...