Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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When Farmer Sprague, a free man, got home that night, he read of his victory in big black press headlines while his Wet 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...
Last week U. S. scientists read with interest that Dr. Paul Renno Heyl, U. S. Bureau of Standards physicist, had determined more accurately than ever before the value of G, constant of gravitation. He found it to be .00000006670 dynes.* The most commonly accepted value for G has been .00000006658 dynes obtained in 1895-96 by Physicists Charles Vernon Boys in England and Karl Ferdinand Braun in Germany...
Invitations to the State Banquet read "Home going at 9:30." Punctual to the minute, Gustaf V & family withdrew to their private apartments for His Majesty's nightly bridge game. Guests found their...
...plan was to be kept "confidential" until time to spring it on the President as a New Year's surprise. But the secret was only one day old when it fell into the hands of Mississippi's sly Senator Pat Harrison. With obvious relish he read on the Senate floor, sentence by sentence, from the "ludicrous" plan to "bedeck [the President's] brow with a coronet of praise and warm his heart with every complimentary expression." Also, he noted, the President's administrative assistant French Strother was once an editorial writer on World's Work...
Newsgatherers read in his printed statement: "American genius may be able to establish a ... satisfactory balance between manufacturer and consumer. . . the most important practical issue...