Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge, determined not to be frustrated by what President Wilson, in like circumstances, called a little group of wilful men, sent for two of his own party's unsympathetic members-Johnson of California and Connecticut's McLean. What he said to them or they to him was not divulged...
...ratify the treaty before the expiration of my term of office." Equally well known is the fact that Missouri's cigar-gnawing Senator Reed disapproves of the Treaty and would like to defeat it as a crowning event of his irreconcilable career. Other opponents are California's Johnson, New Hampshire's Moses, Minnesota's Shipstead. Maryland's Bruce, bumbling against the Treaty last week, called it "utter inanity...
...proportionately entitled to and many another has less. Representative Fenn of Connecticut has long and often proposed a bill which, in its present form, would keep the House membership at 435 and reapportion the seats on the basis of the 1930 census, when taken. Estimates are that California would benefit most, gaining six seats. Next would be Michigan, gaining four seats; then Ohio, 3; New Jersey & Texas, 2; Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma & Washington, 1 seat each. Hitherto the States which are threatened with losing seats have been an organized bloc opposing Reapportionment. Now the would-be-gainers...
...abroad were there any pandemic outbreaks of disease last year, and in no country with a modern public health organization did pestilences spread. India continues to harbor bubonic plague, as do French Indo-China, China, Algeria, Madagascar, Nigeria, Siam, Argentina, Ecuador, South Africa, Greece, Russia. Two people in California, however, caught bubonic plague last year-from ground squirrels...
...dinner will be held in honor of Professor Carlo Formicht, of the University of Rome, who was recently a visiting lecturer at the University of California and is now on his way back to Italy. After the dinner, the Circolo will hold its first meeting of the year, at which plans for the ensuing season will be discussed...