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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bootleggers. Many a Canadian 'legger is expected to move south to the U. S. The new law makes him superfluous, and even first offense carries six months' sentence, no fine option; repeated offenses carry long sentences. U. S. 'leggers will thus increase...
...Cabinet, mostly composed of quick-trigger army officers, assembled with Dictator-Premier Ibanez and despatched a verbal ultimatum to the President. President Figueroa had no option but to issue a proclamation as follows: "Serious personal motives compel me to absent myself from my constitutional duties for a period of two months. During this time the Minister of the Interior (Premier Ibanez) will rep)ace me in the Presidency with the title of Vice President of the Republic, in accordance with Article 66 of the Political Constitution of the State...
...educational institutions. The question has ceased to be one concerning the justice of conflicting views; the very principles of liberalism are at stake. Education is presumably an effort to cultivate the rational powers of youth and yet in these instances such faculties have been forced to choose between the option of conforming to the prevailing mode of thought, or of ceasing to function...
...present Ontario law (that the new bill may replace) the sale of 4.4% beer and whiskey on a doctor's prescription is permitted. Many bootleggers flourish. The new bill makes sure that liquor will only be sold through government stores by a provision for compulsory jail sentence without option of a fine for the unauthorized sale of as much as one bottle of liquor...
...Naval Academy eights had an option of making the trip to Cambridge, or entering the Inter-collegiate Regatta at Poughkeepsie in June. It has now been decided to enter the Regatta, although official sanction has not yet been granted...