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...sold. Ontario has approximately 3.000,000 population. *The Canadian House of Commons last week passed (173 to 11) a bill to deny clearance papers to liquor shipments for the U. S. The U. S. Treasury has long contended that only by such cooperation from Canada can it cope with border liquor smuggling: (TIME. June...
...Association of Junior Leagues of America, whose 20,000 members in 114 cities of the U.S., Canada and Hawaii do charitable work socially, last week swung open its exclusive gate on the southern border of the U.S. to admit the Junior League of Mexico City. It was the first league branch in any foreign country other than Canada. But with Mexico admitted, the A.J.L.A. found itself without a definite "foreign policy...
...Chicago, the friends of L. A. Thiel received cards which he had had engraved 15 years ago. On each card was a black border, a short biography, a paragraph of philosophy and an invitation to attend the funeral of L. A. Thiel...
Once he made an excursion outside his specialized field, with painful results. Learning to fly in 1917, he left San Diego in an Army plane for Calexico, Calif., unhappily named neighbor of Mexicali, Mexico. The plane was forced down, lost, 50 miles south of the border. U. S. and Mexican troops and civilians searched four days before finding Col. Bishop's companion. He directed the searchers 30 miles to the south where lay Col. Bishop, unable to talk or walk. He had subsisted on two sandwiches, two oranges, radiator water from the wrecked plane...
Persons who know the ropes in South America predicted that the 15 German girls who left Berlin last week will land at Montevideo, Uruguay, whence they will be smuggled across the border into Argentina, and will then start dancing in Buenos Aires at one of the Bix Six cafes: Ta-Ba-Ris, Armenonville, Casino Pigall, Maipu Pigall, American Dancing and Folies Bergere. Of these the first two are comparatively high class, with champagne obligatory at $13 per pint or $23 the bottle; but at the last four mere "drinks" are obligatory at between $2 and $3 each, the hostesses gulping...