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1920

METHODISTS DEMAND ARMY DRINK INQUIRY

New York Times. Mar 18, 1923

WASHINGTON, March 17. -- Under the heading "Turn On the Light," a demand that the Secretaries of War and Navy do everything possible to find out if officers named in a recently published Washington bootleggers' list actually bought liquors from this man was made by the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church today. [PDF, Timeline]


NEW "PEEPING TOM" LAW WORRIES THE TAXPAYER

New York Times. Aug 17, 1924.

SOME fine day next year all persons who pay income tax to the Federal Government will wake up to find their names, addresses and amounts of tax paid posted in a great list at the office of the district Collector of Internal Revenue, and perhaps also at post offices and other public places. [PDF, Timeline]


CHARGE ACCOUNTS MADE VIRTUALLY LOSS-PROOF

New York Times. Aug 1, 1926.

JUNE is the month of weddings, graduations and plans for Summer vacations. It is consequently one of the starred periods in the retail merchants' calendar Young brides and grooms furnish new homes, and parents buy trousseaus; relatives purchase wedding and commencement gifts; the steamer trunk and the Summer cottage require replenishing. [PDF, Timeline]


1930

WIGGIN TO CONDUCT REICH CREDIT STUDY.

New York Times. Aug 9, 1931

BASLE, Aug. 8.--The committee of ten on German credits organized by the Bank for International Settlements began its work in the bank building here this afternoon by unanimously electing as its chairman its American member, Albert H. Wig [PDF, Timeline]


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