Word: welled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yourself is no easier for nations of men than it is for men. Canada and the U. S. are traditionally amicable neighbors, but this does not spare them from having back-fence arguments. Last week the problems between the two countries had accumulated to an extent that might well have shaken the amity of two less level-minded neighbors...
...sell liquor outside the 12-mile limit. To support his action, Mr. Sheedy advanced the opinion of the U. S. Supreme Court in Cunard v. Mellon, 1923, in which it was decided that the 18th Amendment applied only to the territorial waters of the U. S. for domestic as well as foreign ships. It is under this decision that foreign ships bring beverage liquor into U. S. ports under seal. Said Mr. Sheedy: "All other trans-Atlantic passenger vessels serve liquor. . . . The law does not place American vessels under any handicap in this particular. ... If passengers desire wines and liquor...
...genius'. But somehow, as- though to prove to the world which has called her "America's Sweetheart" that her talent does not share the tawdriness of the phrase, she turns her difficulties to assets, brings vividly to life the southern smalltown coquette who liked one fellow too well to suit her father. Best shot of any talking picture to date - Mary Pickford telling a lawyer what she thinks of her father after he has shot and fatally wounded her lover. In 1897, Mrs. John Charles Smith, a widow, ran a candy counter in a fish store in Toronto...
...Weiss of TIME, President Grover C. Loening of Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corp. Assistant Secretary Warner promised the Intercollegiate Aeronautical Association the co-operation of the National Aeronautic Association. Associate Editor Weiss described TIME'S flying school* and suggested that some light plane manufacturers would gladly give planes to well-organized college units for the sake of the free publicity and advertising the gifts would engender. President Loening clapped his approval to the idea but begged off from applications for his big amphibians. For best college flying activities he has put up $5,000 worth of prizes...
...points (%) in the cost of living . ... while wages are almost at the 1924 level. . . . This means an increase in the purchasing power of our wages equivalent to the remission of ?161,000,000 ($780,850,000) annually in indirect taxation." Though such a statement is all very well for electioneering purposes it completely ignores the fact that thousands of British workmen lost their jobs when British exports to the continent were curtained on account of the refusal of Europeans to pay British "gold prices" in Europe's depreciated currencies...