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¶ Lady Astor was successful in defeating an amendment to her anti-liquor bill, which aims at preventing the sale of intoxicants to people under the age of 18. The amendment, which was defeated by 30 to 17 votes, was to exempt beer from the scope of the bill. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Apr. 7, 1923 | 4/7/1923 | See Source »

The Progressive Club of the Debating Union received five more votes than the Conservative Club last evening in Harvard Hall after sustaining the affirmative side of the question whether the United States should or should not enter the World Court. Each of the Clubs has now won two of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROGRESSIVES TURN TABLES AT DEBATE | 4/4/1923 | See Source »

In the April number of Columbia, the Knights of Columbus magazine. Mr. Justice Joseph Morschauser (also of the New York State Supreme Court-who presided at the Stillman case and other divorce suits) advocated the abolition of divorce in the United States. "Divorce," said he, "is a cancer in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: No Divorce, Ever | 3/31/1923 | See Source »

"There can be no compromise with lawlessness. . . . When the people do not want the Eighteenth Amendment they can repeal it."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: The Issue Defined | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

At the smoker, which will begin at 8 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union an amendment to the Constitution of the Senior class will be considered. The proposed amendment is the omission of paragraph (c) in Article I, Section 1. At present the section reads:

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO GIVE DINNER TO SENIOR OFFICERS | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

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