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Dates: during 1920-1929
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One 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 »

Three days after President Hoover had pledged his administration to the Constitution in general and the 18th Amendment in particular, Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin resigned as New York's Republican National Committeewoman. Her reason: "I want to devote my untrammeled efforts toward working for a change in the Prohibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: W. O. N. P. R. | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

The new Government financing legislation which the Senate has yet to approve, would permit the Treasury to sell its bills below par and pay no interest on them. The securities would be put up for competitive bidding, the buyer making his profit in the difference between the purchase price and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Treasury Bills | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Since his court-martial, he has been living on his private estate "Boxwood," at Middleburg, Va., on the east slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains and not far west of Washington. Nominally he goes in for farming and horse & stock raising. While doing that and making frequent trips to Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Again, Mitchell | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

One of the strangest experiences that the crew of the Los Angeles ever had was when, last September, as the ship sailed low over Layton, N. J., a man ran out with a shotgun and fired a charge up into the big silvery bag. He accompanied his shot with dancing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Lark | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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