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"There is as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail."

"The Blackstone Female Institute, which [James Cannon Jr.] Served as principal, was a two-year college [in Virginia]. He offered this advice to candidates for admission: 'No young ladies are wanted as students at the institute who are not willing to accept the guidance of the principal as that of an older friend, who is planning to give them such training as will develop them into helpful and attractive women.'"

for at least the second time, the year of Anton Cermak's election is given as 1930 instead of 1931

"Poorly trained Prohibition Bureau officials were, according to federal admissions, responsible for approximately 260 deaths in enforcement of the law. The Washington Herald put the number killed at over one thousand...one Border Patrol agent, reported to be a 'stone cold killer,' estimated that between 1924 and 1934 patrol agents alone had killed close to five hundred 'contrabandistas.'"