Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seek to correct a wrong and not create another wrong in the opposite direction. . . . These powers will be used when, as and if it may be necessary to accomplish the purpose." President Roosevelt reported conditions "a little better than they were two months ago," with industry picking up. freight traffic increasing, farm prices improving. But, he warned, "I am not going to indulge in issuing proclamations of overenthusiastic assurance. We cannot ballyhoo ourselves back to prosperity." A sensible optimist, he added: "We may make mistakes of procedure as we carry out the policy. I have no expectation of making...
...schools, the First Battalion. Whether or not the young gentlemen of Lawrenceville, where the Tennessee Shad once used beer for Welsh rabbits, were unanimously excited by Crusader Clark's earnest explanation of the need for repealing the 18th Amendment and for "strict control of the liquor traffic," the evening's results were 100%. Dr. Abbott formed the First Battalion by a method which should prove useful in other schools. He said that those boys who did not wish to join might leave the auditorium. All remained, signed cards, agreed to pay 50? and receive a button. Then...
Taking advantage of the fact that overnight parking in the streets of Cambridge is illegal garagemen of the vicinity have been giving the police the locations and registration numbers of the cars which they find parked during the night. Meanwhile the local traffic squad has itself started a drive against such offenses and has already tagged over a hundred cars; it calls attention to complains received from townspeople and emphasizes the fire hazard of parking on River Street or in back of Dunster House, near the area of frame dwellings. Unrealistically, the University insists that any student who can afford...
...debating team closes its season tonight, facing Yale in the Lowell House Common Room at 8 o'clock to uphold the affirmative of the question: "Resolved, That the international traffic in arms and munitions should be outlawed." Another team has been sent to New Haven where it will defend the negative of the same question. The winner of the Thomas Jefferson Coolidge Prize for Public Speaking, will be announced at the debate here tonight...
When Kernel Pasha drove the illicit manufacturers out of Turkey some of them began secret operations in Bulgaria. At first the Bulgarian police, inexperienced in such things, were none too quick in detecting and suppressing the traffic. Recently, however, the Bulgarian authorities have proved themselves alert and effective in suppressing the traffic, as is indicated by the bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of State, issued Feb. 23, 1933 which says in part: "The prompt action of the Bulgarian authorities in this matter, evidence as it is of their desire to cooperate in the international effort to suppress...