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...House take up a resolution by Pennsylvania's Beck and Maryland's Linthicum to amend the Constitution for the return of liquor control to the States? The Wets, with no hope of actual victory, purposed by this ballot to put every House member on record on Prohibition, weed out the weaslers for the coming campaign, exhibit the growing Wet strength. Before the counting began, Drys claimed the Wet vote would not exceed 160. Wets predicted they would get at least 180. Final result: 227 Drys voting No; 187 Wets voting...
...intend is not that the Administration shall continue hostilities while we abstain from them." Last week Speaker Garner led the House into a clear-cut split with President Hoover on Government re-organization for economy's sake. Instead of giving the President blanket authority to trim and weed and consolidate which he requested fortnight ago, the House, by a vote of 215-to-22. created a seven-man committee of its own to survey the executive field and report by April 15 where and how reorganizations could save $100,000,000. Some Republicans flayed this Democratic move...
...this is the annual Spring conference," explained Looey XVI. "We're just going to talk things over like and map out the Nova Scotia Province fairly for future business, to eliminate duplication of effort and waste in other forms and to weed out graft. Yes, you heard me! I said: 'Wipe out graft...
...Literary board, James Parton '34, of Rye, New York; and Richard John Walsh, Jr. '34, of Pelham, New York. On the Art board Sidney Carrol '34, Brooklyn, New York, and John Wentworth Pierce '33, of Topsville. On the Business board Kip Natherby '34, New York, and Roger Haydick Weed '84, New York...
...cents' worth of a certain bird seed, planted in any back yard, will grow into a yardful of marijuana. Marijuana is a variety of hemp weed (Cannabis sativa) long common in Mexico, lately becoming common in the U. S. Its leaves can be dried, ground and rolled into cigarets, which are bootlegged under the name of "muggles," "reefers," or "Mary Warners." Thinner, shorter than standard cigarets, "muggles" are made from the small delicate leaves of the female marijuana plant. The male plant has no potency. Smoking of marijuana cigarets produces a state of intoxication similar to that induced...