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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Prohibition country, did their best to give a handsome Christmas present to thirsty Finns last week. They introduced a bill to raise the alcoholic content of legal beer from 1.6% to 3% by weight.* The measure was rejected (97-86) but, impressed by the closeness of the vote, the Cabinet ministers dropped unofficial but important hints that so soon as the ice is out of the lakes and canals next spring, the Government will introduce laws preparatory to a national referendum on Prohibition. (Finland's present Constitution does not provide for public referenda.) Finnish observers credited this parliamentary Wetness...
Misfortune has dogged President Hoover's North Carolina appointments. When he tried to reward that State for its 1928 vote by elevating Circuit Judge John Johnston Parker of Charlotte to the U. S. Supreme Court, the Senate tore his nominee to bits, raised unwelcome racial and labor issues, refused confirmation (TIME, March 31 et seq.). Last week it seemed likely that the outcome of the President's second attempt to do the Old North State a political favor would be much the same. Observers began to wonder who was responsible for the White House's political advice on North Carolina...
Taking a defiant stand before the committee, Mr. McNinch admitted his 1928 Hoover vote, added that last month he voted for the Republican Congressional nominee in his district, refused to vote for the Democratic senatorial nominee (Senator-elect Josiah Bailey). He insisted he was an "independent Democrat" whom the President had offered a Federal job as long as two years ago. Only as "a public duty" in the last fortnight had he consented to take one. As for his anti-Smith expenditures, he said he had not made a full report on them because he did not know whence they...
...scale to aid a newspaperman. Chances that M. Tardieu would succeed himself as Prime Minister brightened hourly. If in Paris there were some guilty editorial consciences, this fact eased them: both Chamber and Senate are so evenly divided between Right and Left that no real preponderance exists. The last vote of confidence in the lower house supported the Tardieu cabinet by a Right majority of 64. Few hours later the Senate upset this same cabinet by a Left majority of eight. The will of the French people remains obscure. France needs, has not had since the War, a decisive election...
With a rubber bandage around one knee, flat-nosed, beetle-browed Battling Battalino of Hartford, Conn., featherweight champion of the world, advanced crouching in Madison Square Garden toward Kid Chocolate (Eligio Sardinias), flashy Cuban Negro. With an eye for an evening's entertainment and the support of the Italian vote at the next election. Governor John Trumbull of Connecticut was at the ringside rooting for Battalino and so was Mayor Walter Batterson of Hartford. Wild and scared in the first round, feeling the hostility of the crowd which had called him "cheese champion" because he kept his title safe...