Word: closeness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...corn venture, his banking success, his Tank Corps experience proved him man enough to be elected State head of the American Legion. Thus both he and Republican Frank ("Chief") Haucke, another onetime State Legion head, gained local prominence. Gubernatorial Candi date Woodring defeated Candidate Haucke Nov. 4 by the close margin of 319 votes, following a campaign in which most of the color was interpolated by the Independent Candidate, Dr. John Richard ("Goat-Gland") Brinkley (TIME...
...18th Amendment was ratified by State legislatures and not by the People themselves it was invalid. Old though the broad contention is that the People (i. e. conventions) should have ratified the 18th Amendment rather than the States (i. e. legislatures), Judge Clark's decision was no close-knit legal argument along this familiar line. Discursively he began: "The traditional method of adopting amendments to the U. S. Constitution is challenged. . . . Even if this opinion meets with a cold reception in the Appellate courts, we hope it will at least have the effect of focussing the country...
...that the then French Ambassador to Rome, Rene Besnard, had received large sums from Oustric after recommending this same company for listing on the Bourse. Andre Tardieu still remained unsullied personally last week. Cynics wagered that any more damaging testimony would bring the entire affaire Oustric to an abrupt close...
...attempting to persuade the world's sugar-growers to adjust production to consumption (TIME, Dec. 15). Although he had previously succeeded in uniting Java growers with the Cubans, he failed to draw the European beet-sugar producers into the agreement. Just as the conference was drawing to a close, the powerful German delegation left Brussels, announced they could not conform to the schedule given them. Private negotiations will continue, for other nations have agreed to the restriction, contingent upon Germany's eventual consent. But for the present, sugar remains one of the commodities in which overproduction outrides profits...
...laughter at the suggestion that she divorce her husband and marry Dan; a heinous appropriation bill reared its ugly head and Daniel smacked it, though in vain. The last you see of him he is flying furiously westward to prevent Irma Schmultz from sailing to the Philippines. As you close the book you are sure that he will get her, sure that he will be almost unanimously reelected. The Author. Janet Fairbank's father (Benjamin Ayer) was a big man in Chicago's yesterday; her sister is Novelist Margaret Ayer Barnes (TIME, July 7). Herself...