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...Congressmen on record as Wet (TIME, March 21) and the nation economically ailing, antiProhibitionists have been pointing with new emphasis and hope to drink as a source of revenue and employment. Last week the economic argument for Prohibition reform had gathered enough momentum to cause plans for monster "beer parades" throughout the land, and three famed Drys came out in favor of resubmission of Prohibition to the people...
...large bell-clapper, similar to that taken from Memorial Hall 11 days ago, from Bertram Hall, a Radcliffe dormitory, in the early part of the evening by a large group of students, consisting mostly of Freshmen. With cries of "We want our bell-clapper and we want beer!" and "Apted for President" the rioting students broke into the Radcliffe dormitories and rushed through the halls in search of the missing clapper. The only thing which could be found was a bell-clapper in Bertram Hall, and this was speedily removed and carried in the direction of Harvard Square. By this...
...must go! Jail for the gangsters and payrolls for public employes!" Elected, he declared: "Most of the citizens are of foreign extraction. They are home-loving people and ask only for peace and good government. They'll get it." They will also still be able to get their beer at Cicero's 175 dispensaries...
When S. S. President Coolidge docked in Honolulu, Collector of the Port Mrs. Jeannette Hyde seized a case of beer, a case of wine belonging to Passenger Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon, potent British banker. Fined $150. Sir Victor said: "It was really funny, being hauled in by a woman. I was frightfully embarrassed ... I had no idea that I was busting any of your jolly old United States laws...
When heavy-jowled Stanford White, one of the country's most talented architects, was commissioned to design the original Madison Square Garden, an arena in New York to house circuses, horse shows, prize fights, dog shows, a beer garden and cabaret, he found it suitable to clap a copy of Seville's Giraldo Tower on one side and then get his good friend Augustus St. Gaudens to set a 13-ft. nude Greek goddess tiptoe on the Moorish-Gothic-Renaissance cathedral belfry. Beyond its inappropriateness, the Garden tower was a lovely thing and New York cherished her Diana...