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On polling day no speeches and no posters of any sort were permitted. Previously Finns favoring continuance of Prohibition had postered the city with statements that "those who vote wet will be punished on the day of judgment." On election morn, since the Government had forbidden both Drys and Wets...
In 1917 when Finland broke away from Russia and became a Republic, Professor Lucina Hagman was a leading female Dry in the successful fight which set up Finnish Prohibition in 1919. Thirteen years of Prohibition having changed her views, Professor Hagman exclaimed after the polling: "The Finnish home has been...
A pudgy gentleman with sparse unruly white hair and a toothbrush mustache stood patiently in line for nearly an hour under the dusty pepper trees by a Madrid polling place last week before he was recognized: Alcala Zamora, Provisional President of Spain.
Said the Commission: "In making this statement nothing new is added to the present law of the Church. . . . The present Canon 43 and the Marriage Service of the Church both assume that marriage may be declared null and void. . . . The door for remarriage of divorced persons is by no means...
A two-to-one victory was what newspaper straw polls last week indicated Anton Joseph ("Tony") Cermak, Democratic nominee for Mayor of Chicago, would win over Republican Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson in next week's municipal election. But three factors put a discount on this political forecast: 1...