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Under this plan Congress, after revising the 18th Amendment, would set up a bi-partisan National Commission on Liquor Control. Also authorized would be a National Liquor Corporation, privately financed, with dividends limited to 7% and operating under the National Commission's regulations and control. The Corporation would have a complete monopoly of the manufacture, importation and distribution of liquor, which would be stored in its bonded warehouses. If a State chose to sell liquor, it would create a local corporation as a subsidiary of the national corporation. Retail sale would occur through branches of the State corporation to citizens...
Lord Willingdon is acceptable to the non-partisan mass of the British public because of his obvious fitness for the job. Long, lean, after his able service through the War as Governor of Bombay (Bombay was headquarters for the ill-fated British Mesopotamia expedition) he was appointed Governor of Madras. British papers announced that it was "a foregone conclusion" that he would be next Viceroy of India. Something went wrong, Lord Reading, a fellow-Liberal, got the job. In 1926 Lord Willingdon was made Governor General of Canada. Gerard Frederick Freeman-Thomas, his eldest son, served in the Coldstreams...
...their lungs to "punch" Lindsey, to "lynch him" is only slightly amusing to the cynic. More pleasing was the image of the battered advocate of companionate marriage, who is sincere if nothing else, being snatched from the rioters by four burly detectives. Howis of glee must attend the non-partisan when he reads that this formally attired herd docilely returned to their pews, no longer menaced by the black sheep, sand "Fight the Good Fight" and then shouted "God bless Bishop Manning!" The Church Militant...
...certainly does not represent the practice of better American journalism. As a piece of politics, it is certainly far below the ideals of political partisan ship held by substantial men in that party...
...President was talking, of course, about the arch-Democratic New York World's publication of Ralph S. Kelley's oil shale land charges against the Department of the Interior. When these charges appeared last month (TIME, Oct. 6) they were widely discounted as partisan campaign politics. When last fortnight Attorney General Mitchell, upon investigation, pronounced them "without merit or substance," they were left discredited in the Washington gutter for the Senate to nose into. But now, with President Hoover angrily denouncing them and their maker, they were suddenly brought back into sharp public focus...