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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...stool pigeons" by sewing their eyes shut with a fine needle and silk thread. The decoys were then fastened by their feet to the stool, which has a circular piece of board six or eight inches in diameter, fastened to a stick four or five feet long, the opposite end of which was placed in a slot in a stake, thus forming a hinge so that the bird could be raised and lowered by pulling a string running to the fowler's hiding place...
...friends puzzled him with assurances that he was another Dred Scott.* His cocksure comment: "Prohibition's a farce. I always knew the 18th Amendment wasn't constitutional. People should be able to drink what they want." Farmer Sprague & friends began to celebrate what they imagined was the end of Prohibition with heavy draughts of "cider" (applejack). Judge Clark's ruling, however, produced resounding results far beyond Wantage. His was the first Federal Court opinion invalidating the 18th Amendment. It raised new or forgotten points of law and constitutional policy. It "amazed" the Drys, "delighted" the Wets. Though...
...worldwide crusade of prayer for conversion of Latin American Indians began, by the Pope's orders, the end of last month...
...sort in which the district superintendent rescues an engineer from a drunken stupor by reminding him that lives depend on running the trains properly. It is a love-triangle, with Louis Wolheim as the heroic but unfortunate suitor, Robert Armstrong as the one who gets Jean Arthur in the end. Best shot: an express racing through life-sized valleys and hills to Chicago...
...many a Roman Catholic church worshippers reverently view the "Stations of the Cross"-14 (sometimes 15) scenes from the end of Christ's life. London's Westminster Cathedral has a fine example cut in stone by Sculptor Eric Rowland Gill. Woodcutter James Reid, more ambitious, less successful, has attempted to picture the whole life of Christ in 71 scenes...