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...Kansas said NO by 90,000 votes in a referendum on legalizing beer. But the Legislature then failed to follow through with a law fixing alcoholic content. Result: potent beer continued to foam unchecked in Kansas. Democrats charge that Governor Landon got the Legislature to dodge the issue and thwart the popular will because, as a prospective Presidential nominee, he was afraid his signature on a bone dry law would cost him support among Eastern Wets. Last week a Democratic proposal for such a law got only nine Senate votes. Even Joe McDonald was against it. "In Kansas," cried...
...wife Myrtle, his 17-year-old daughter Shirley. The Tapps had been looking forward to the meeting. Shirley, who was "saved" at 14 by the Full Salvation Union, remarked: "It's going to be a great meeting although the Devil has sent ice and snow to try to thwart the Christians." So when Evangelist Wright brought his exhortations to a shouting climax, pale, pious Shirley Tapp was among the first to hasten up to the altar, burst into prayer. "Oh, Lord," cried she, "I will always praise You and never be afraid to bear Your name!" Then & there...
Notwithstanding the fact that since 1922: England has closed her eyes to Mussolini's outspoken desire for war and expansion, thereby encouraging him, sided with him against Ethiopia and on other occasions when she wished to thwart France, now that her own interests are at stake, she expects France to forget everything and ardently woos her in the hope that she can spellbind her to her side...
Every leading Briton seemed on the qui vive last week to thwart Benito Mussolini's candid designs on Ethiopia. Political fossils like bemonocled Nobel Peace Prizeman Sir Austen Chamberlain, shaggy-maned David Lloyd George, Tea-pot-Tempester Winston Churchill- and Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, who has lately collected 11,000,000 British straw votes for Peace, all hustled in to see Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare...
...continuing to teach. More explanation of Communism would undoubtedly cause many unwarranted dismissals. It is impossible to subscribe to the opinion of our super-patriotic organizations that ignorance is bliss. Nor is it possible it support yellow-press inspired and emotional legislating rather than reason in the effort to thwart Communism...