Word: contraband
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...contention among the nations. Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera of Spain set the pot of contention a-bubbling by despatching to Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands and the U. S., a declaration that the control of Tangier by Spain is necessary to prevent the importation of contraband munitions by Moroccans rebellious against the regime of Spain in Spanish Morocco. The Powers to whom this declaration was despatched, are, of course, signatories in whole or in part* to the Act of Algeciras (1906), delimiting the foreign spheres of influence in Morocco. By the supplemental Franco-British-Spanish Convention...
...early days of the rum fleet were however concluded by the American coast patrol, which seized several thousand cases of contraband liquor belonging to Sir Broderick's company. The Baronet admitted that this disastrous coup exhausted his funds. He gamely stuck at it, however, and announced that he would next try to land cargoes through the "Bahamas International Trading Co." if he could finance the new organization. But the British press frowned upon the venture. The influential London Daily Mail warned prospective investors against it. The apparent result was Sir Broderick's recent bankruptcy...
...small part of the work done by his men. "The Coast Guard was started," said Rear Admiral Billard, in 1790. Its purpose is to protect the customs laws of the United States. In these days, around the end of the eighteenth century, smugglers were very active in running contraband into secluded bays and inlets along the Atlantic seaboard. The original Coast Guard cutters had to combat this activity, which they succeeded in stamping out, and smuggling of that character practically disappeared...
...this time bootlegging of the copies of the proscribed publication began to be put on a business basis. At 11.30 the price was quoted at $1 and an hour later, at $2.50. The price rose continually all afternoon, and at 8 last night contraband copies were offered...
...recent reports that a squad of Federal prohibition agents have been detailed to "dry up" Cambridge has evidently not struck terror to the hearts of at least one band of dealers in contraband goods. Those whom Dean Greenough has characterized as the "intellectual bootleggers" have once more made their appearance in Harvard Square with an entirely new line of surreptitious aids for the backward student. The old style of printed notes is evidently passe in the circles where such things are decreed and the very latest thing comes as a weekly magazine which "works while you rest...