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...five, Mr. Garner foresaw eight additional Democratic Senators from the four new States - enough to over whelm Grundy-Republican-Tariffism. And incidently, under the Garner plan, what is now Texas would cast 28 electoral votes for President instead of 20. The mule-like kick in Mr. Garner's threat-proposal lay in the fact that Texas can turn itself into five States whether or not the rest of the U. S. approves. When Texas was admitted into the Union 84 years ago, Congress authorized it to form "new States of convenient size, not exceeding four in number...
...threat of a Democrat filibuster against the Senate's final acceptance of a patchwork measure loomed when Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison exclaimed: "It'll be a long time before you get this Bill. I'd want nothing better than the responsibility for killing this legislation...
Reilly, pitcher for the winners, was star of the game, striking out 13 of the Crimson batters. Lashua, St. John's third baseman, hit three doubles in four times at bat. Harvard's only threat came in the fourth inning when it scored four runs on a base on balls and four hits, including a triple by R. S. Ogden...
...Grein raid in Chicago was the first move under what Commissioner Doran proclaimed as a nation-wide drive on hopshops. A Treasury Department interpretation of the Supreme Court decision also raised a shadowy threat of prosecution against many a potent, prosperous grape juice company now shipping an unfermented product in kegs to customers with specific instructions for transforming it into illegal wine...
...Giuseppe Sirianni, ranking expert of the Italian delegation, reported to the government of Signer Benito Mussolini on the general world naval situation. Next day the cabinet released copies of Italy's current warboat building program - prepared weeks ago but ominous enough to seem to Frenchmen like a postConference threat. Twenty-nine fighting ships will be laid down this year and built at a cost of $40,000,000: one 10,000-ton cruiser; two 5,100-ton flotilla leaders; four 1,240-ton destroyers and 22 submarines. At London Italy signed, as did France, that part of the Treaty...