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...both sides can argue history. Smoking proponents warn that the current antismoking campaign could end up like Prohibition in the 1920s: banning cigarettes would be impossible to enforce and would only increase their outlaw appeal. "I think there's a strict analogy here," says Klein. "Both drugs have been used by cultures since the dawn of civilization; they can have very deleterious effects on society, but trying to ban them by law brings about circumstances which are much worse...
...first time in American history that so much is riding on so little. In the 1920s there were investment pools and trusts. In the investment trusts, a series of shell companies was piled on top of a real company, most often a dividend-paying utility. Each shell company offered a dividend that was dependent on its receiving the dividend from below. The price of each shell company's stock reached such lofty heights that the value of the original company below was lost sight of, and eventually the investment trusts came crashing down...
...film begins with scenes of upper-class Latin American society in the 1920s. Rosa (Teri Polo), the ghost-like eldest daughter of the wealthy Del Valle family, is to marry Esteban Trueba (Jeremy Irons), a young entrepreneur determined t strike it rich in the gold mines...
...maniacal chortle of Lantz's Woody Woodpecker is probably the most universally recognized laugh since Santa Claus first ho-ho-hoed -- an enduring, if somewhat annoying, piece of Americana. Lantz, known more for his craftsmanship than his originality, ran his own animation studio by the late 1920s, where he produced the first Technicolor cartoon and a host of characters like Andy Panda and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. None came close to the success of Woody Woodpecker, who first hit the screen in 1940. Lantz reveled in the probably apocryphal tale of a woodpecker who disturbed his honeymoon but inspired...
...1920s, Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, and Professor of Biological Chemistry Lawrence Joseph Henderson grew dissatisfied with what they saw as the rigid formalization of higher education...