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...looked upon as particularly significant in view of the special session of the Massachusetts Legislature which he will call not later than December 6 for the purpose of establishing regulations for the sale of all alcoholic beverages. On that date, the last of the four remaining states whose assent is necessary to Repeal will have taken a vote, and liquor regulation will have been put into the hands of the legislatures of the several states...
...Vagabond settled back and addressed a volume of the Catalogue, open to the list of officers, which he had been using; "'Quo Chium pretio cadum mercemur, tacos,'" he said. The leaf fluttered in the breeze, as if in assent...
After nearly a week of suspicious sniffing, Argentine Delegate Thomas Le Breton last week received in London his Government's assent and signed the international wheat agreement, drawn up fortnight ago (TIME, Sept. 4). By it the exporting countries agreed to divide between them a total export quota of 560,000,000 bushels of wheat for the coming year, and cut their exportable production 15% for 1934-35. The agreement runs until July 31, 1935, provides an advisory committee to adjust quotas. Importing nations agree to lower their tariffs when the world wheat price has reached 63.08? gold...
...Pope then presented the names of his nominees, inquiring in each case, "Quid vobis videtur?" ("How does this seem to you?") The assembled cardinals nodded, doffed their skullcaps in silent assent. This procedure no outsider...
...Nazi Party (largest in the Reichstag) be made Chancellor with "precisely the powers" of Benito Mussolini (TIME, Aug. 22). Less than six months after this rebuff, the Goddess of the Eternal Court of History-as Orator Hitler so fetchingly calls her-makes him Chancellor of the Reich by assent of Old Paul von Hindenburg (TIME...