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...Women's Organization for Prohibition Reform, founded by Crusader Sabin's mother (TIME, June 10), has about $200,000 for this campaign. The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, headed by Major Henry Hastings Curran (TIME, April 28, et seq.~), already has spent about $600,000. Estimate of organized Wet expenditures this year: $ 1,000,000. Estimated Anti-Saloon League campaign -expenditures: about...
Arizona's suit, on a par in importance with the Great Lakes diversion controversy (TIME, Nov. 22, 1926, et seq.), did not cause the U. S. to delay its construction plans. Declared President Hoover: "The letting of contracts . . . will proceed as rapidly as possible. The determination of the points of law raised by Arizona will be expedited. ... In the meantime I am in hopes that the States may get together and compose their differences...
...Press Peers," Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere, cares a hoot for "Civilization." The Daily Express (Beaverbrook) merely hung upon Legs a second screaming series of articles about "American desperadoes" (the first series was hung on the shooting of Alfred ["Jake"] Lingle in Chicago-TIME, June 16 et seq.). Meanwhile the Daily Mail (Rothermere) hired Edgar Wallace, No.1 British crime fictioneer, to write: "I have been out-Wallaced by recent factual happenings in the United States...
...more bankrupt than last week at Llandudno. In blind resentment the Conference refused to re-elect to the party Executive Committee of Twelve famed James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, M.P., the jovial Laborite whom Scot MacDonald first made Lord Privy Seal charged with combatting unemployment (TIME, June 17, 1929 et seq.), and when he failed at that gave him his present post, Minister of Dominions...
...Schloss Waxenberg perched on a crag above Linz, is well stocked with rifles, machine guns, ammunition.* Prince von Starhemberg in fine is the chieftain of Austria's irregular and reactionary Heimwehr, well drilled veterans of numerous bloody clashes with the equally irregular Socialist Schutzbund (TIME, Sept. 2, 1929 et seq.). That Monsignor Seipel and all he stands for should want Prince von Starhemberg to be Minister of Interior is a fact with the pregnancy of dynamite...