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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Candide, for centuries a classic, yet officially considered unfit for U. S. consumption. Other famed books barred from U. S. ports include unexpurgated editions of the Arabian Nights, various of the works of Aristophanes, Balzac, Rousseau, Havelock Ellis. Ridiculous, said Senator Cutting, was a situation in which "two-by-four clerks" could decide what the U. S. public might read. Allied with Senator Cutting were Senators Borah, Wheeler, Tydings, Norris, La Follette...
Last week the Senate of the U. S., laboring to pass a tariff bill, paused to discuss, vote upon, and reject two proposals designed to secure independence for the Philippine Islands. After Senator William H. King of Utah had suggested immediate Philippine independence, Senator Broussard of Louisiana brought forward the same idea in modified form, together with a provision that Philippine imports should be subject to tariff duties. The King proposal was rejected; the Broussard proposal was overwhelmed...
Three times the airplane dragged the "sleeve" target, at the end of a 2,000 ft. line, across the sky. Once it was not fired upon because both ship and target were too close to the sun. Once only two guns of the battery had firing data from the new electrical automatic range-finding apparatus. Spectators at the show-the 11th annual meeting of the Army Ordnance Association-later learned that the total of 200 rounds fired had made only a score of shrapnel tears in the red cloth finger. Previously they had seen two four-gun, multiple-mounted...
...Curtiss Condors 7,000 ft. aloft, the largest U. S. Army bomb was released, a 4,000 Ib. mass streaking down into a bullet-nibbled, shell-gnawed wood. A majestic, gloomy geyser of earth and debris arose, hiding the trees. At the edge of the range, some two miles away, listeners heard a long dull booommm...
Accompanied by a small thunderclap and two cinnamon clouds, a railway-mounted 14-in. coastal gun hurled a 1,560 Ib. projectile 25 miles out into Chesapeake...