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...State Constitution states clearly that initiative and referendum petitions do not apply to the appointment, qualification, tenure and removal of judges, but yet Mr. Curley feels that by subterfuge or bluffing he can circumvent this restriction. As Representative Bowker of Brookline said yesterday, "The use of the threat to do this if you don't is old stuff with the Governor and I hope that this specific case where he has made his bed and refuses to lie in it will make some people realize what kind of a man we have as Chief Executive". Unfortunately Mr. Bowker...
...about to take a vacation. When he appeared on the Golden Rule Mother's Day program in Baltimore last Sunday there was no excuse for him to clash with FCC. Proud Dora Thomas from Towson was present while he sang. When queried about her son John's threat, she said: "I believe he means it. John is a Thomas and all we Thomases are pretty determined people...
...Italian adventure in Ethiopia was a direct threat to the lifeline of the British Empire: control of the Mediterranean. From the beginning British diplomacy held to the dogged belief that Benito Mussolini was bluffing. Loudly His Majesty's Government demanded Sanctions, only to discover that Italy would fight if the League attempted to enforce its orders...
North China customs receipts dropped 40% in the past three months, but inter nationally more important was the fresh Japanese threat to British trade and British loans guaranteed by Chinese customs collections. In Tientsin last week was hulking, hook-nosed Sir Frederick William Leith-Ross, chief economic adviser to the British Government since 1932. Around to Japanese Consul General Shigeru Kawagoe (now Ambassador) he rushed to demand the end of Japanese smuggling into North China. Sucking his teeth politely, Consul General Kawagoe countered with comments on the thriving smuggling trade from British Hongkong to Canton...
...important Austrian statesman stayed in Vienna to interview Sir Austen last week. When four days after the wedding he jumped into a train for Prague, quidnuncs insisted it was to do his best to convince the suspicious Czechs that a Habsburg restoration in Austria would be less of a threat than Nazification to their country...