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...generally believed that the U.S. Government closed the border as an aftermath of the Peteet "Shame Deaths" some three years back. One Thomas Peteet. U.S. citizen, and his wife and two daughters were on holiday. Drugged wine was served the girls in a bar; they were kidnaped, haled to a vice den and repeatedly assaulted. Thomas Peteet, miserably ashamed, turned on the gas in a San Diego hotel and killed his whole family. Four Mexicans were tried for the crime, and acquitted...
Speaker Nicholas Longworth of the House has long had a woman secretary, able and personable Miss Mildred E. Reeves of the District of Columbia. Her bobbed hair, olive complexion and wine-colored dresses are familiar decorations of the House, where she can generally be seen in a rear seat on the Democratic side watching legislation hawk-eyed. With women in its membership, the House is used to having women on its floor; hence it admitted women secretaries long ago. But not the Senate, where men are statesmen. Women members of the House may tread there. And "grand old" Mrs. Rebecca...
...scurrilous correspondent of the wet Chicago Tribune pretended that the Summits Pontifex also said, last week, "We consider the Volstead Act immoral and contrary to the laws of Christ." Although the Savior and His disciples and the Virgin Mary did, indeed, all drink wine, it is impossible that the discreet Holy Father could have made such a remark within hearing of the world press...
...Easily, Sire!" exclaims the Dane, "I could stow you away in a single empty wine cask...
...foreword to the program of Mayor Herriot's melodrama will recall that the incident of the Danish sea captain is historic. The real Napoleon chose surrender and St. Helena, instead of a risky, ignominious flight to America. But the stage Napoleon cries: "In a wine-cask then! Give me five years, and I shall conquer the New World...