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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Paradoxically, M. Steeg and his Big Five encountered extreme opposition last week from all sections of the Paris press except papers definitely of their own persuasion. Usually any man with the mandate of Prime Minister can count, no matter what his views, on the support of Le Temps, but last week even this most "official" organ turned against the Government. On every hand editors predicted that the Steeg cabinet would surely fall when it faced the Chamber of Deputies this week. Three politicians who had accepted posts under M. Steeg as under- secretaries were scared out, resigned, explaining lamely that...
...does not matter; that he is expected by his readers to be only a decorator or a clown, or that he is good-naturedly accepted as a scoffer whose bark is probably worse than his bite and who probably is a good fellow at heart; that he does not count in a land that produces eighty-story buildings, motors by the million and wheat by the billions of bushels...
...Mayor Walter Batterson of Hartford. Wild and scared in the first round, feeling the hostility of the crowd which had called him "cheese champion" because he kept his title safe by fighting only at catchweights, Battalino ran into one of Chocolate's short, clean punches, went down for a count of eight, tottered when he arose, apparently hopelessly beaten. But he lasted out the round, was stronger in the next, soon began to pile up points, crowding Chocolate all the time, whipping clumsy but effective hooks to the blackamoor's kinky head and antlike thorax. After 15 rounds...
...last October, the Department of Agriculture later whittled this estimate down to $25,000,000. Over Presidential protest the Senate Committee on Agriculture unanimously approved a bill to loan farmers the full $60,000,000 not only for feed and seed but also for food. Nor could President Hoover count on support from Senate Democrats on this issue because their leader, Arkansas Senator Robinson, dropping harmony, loudly announced for the larger figure. Declared he: "Who said $25,000,000 was enough? Some one down at the budget bureau who is only interested in economy and doesn't know anything...
Saturday evening in the Commonwealth Armory the combined forces of the Jayvee and Freshman polo teams succeeded in downing the Norwich trio by a 10 to 6 count. The Freshman outfit, consisting of Captain L. S. Dillingham, P. S. Shaw, and W. C. McGuckin, were largely responsible for the Crimson triumph...