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California Catholics revere him for maintaining the firm status of their church during a period when Protestant fundamentalists have poured into the state from the midwest prairies, and the irreligious from the Atlantic seaboard...
...Midwest: Illinois v. Butler, at Urbana; Michigan v. Purdue, at Ann Arbor; Minnesota v. Stanford, at Minneapolis; Northwestern v. Ohio State, at Evanston; Notre Dame v. Navy, at South Bend; Oklahoma v. Nebraska, at Norman; Wisconsin v. Chicago, at Madison...
...majority in the House starts with 150 votes from Southern and Midwest States where for a Representative to go Wet prematurely is political suicide. The probable re-election of Dry sitting members who got safely through the primaries will run their voting strength up to 285. Twenty-four congressional districts will witness election contests in which the Wet & Dry issue will more or less figure: Delaware i; Illinois 5; Indiana 1; Iowa 1; Maryland 1; Massachusetts 3; Ohio 4; Oregon 1; Rhode Island 3; Virginia 1; New Jersey 3. Any Wet winnings in these contests will increase that bloc...
...agreement with Canada for joint development of the St. Lawrence as a seaway from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic. The King Government was favorably inclined to such a project. Prime Minister Bennett was understood to oppose it on the theory that it would benefit the U. S. midwest at the expense of the Canadian northwest. Potent objections were also made by the province of Quebec which feared damage to its shipping at Montreal and Quebec, loss of hydroelectric power...
...Augie" Pisano, immediately conjectured that Diamond had prepared to contest the alliance by accumulating armament, by leaving the U. S. so as to be away when the shooting began. Among this and other wild, vague reasons given for expecting a Diamond-Capone war the most credible was that the Midwest roadhouse beer trade, lately an unchallenged Capone concession, had been encroached upon by Diamond's trucks, that Capone wanted to force his rival back to Brooklyn, intended no Brooklyn attack. Mrs. Mae Western, worried wife of the missing Chateau proprietor, told police of a new, mysterious Diamond beer-running...