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Result: 175 Republicans, 177 Democrats, 1 Socialist (Berger of Milwaukee) 1 Independent (Kvale, successor of Volstead), 1 Farmer-Laborite (Wefald of Minnesota)?355, in all, favored the bill. Opposed were 34 Republicans, 20 Democrats?54 in all, most of them from Eastern states...
...Ignaz Seipel, Austrian Chancellor, Herr Grüberger, Foreign Minister, and Herr Schüller, Foreign Office Departmental Chief, left Vienna for Bucharest, capital of Rumania, where they expected to sign a politico-economic treaty...
Representative Berger of Wisconsin (Socialist), four times elected to Congress and twice unseated by the House because he opposed the War; sentenced to 20 years in prison, but subsequently acquitted by the Supreme Court-and once more reelected...
...Play House, plans to produce, for two weeks each a number of plays which would otherwise never be seen outside of New York. Such plays as "Ambush", with which the Guild opened its season, "March Hares", which it is playing with great success at present, "The Deluge", by Henning Berger, and Philip Moeler's "Sophie", which are coming in the next month, would never find their way to any of the larger Boston theatres. Only a limited public is interested in anything besides musical comedy,--a public too small to attract the big-theatre managers who know their business...
Socialism and Communism have always been anathema to him. He fought the propaganda of the Socialist Berger and still fights the radicalism of William Z. Foster and the " Soviet invasion " of the U. S. He has said in his speeches: "I pity the Socialists. . . . I have read all their books. I know all their arguments. . . . I do not regard them as rational beings. ... If the lesser and immediate demands of labor could not be obtained from society as it is, it would be mere dreaming to preach and pursue the will-o'-the-wisp, a new society constructed from rainbow...