Word: contente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undismayed, Democrats next turned to the ticklish subject of beer. Last year traditionally Dry 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...
...case this did not squelch his critics who have called his policy that of a poltroon, the Prime Minister said that he is "quite content to be called a coward," if that is the name people give to his avoidance of a war between Britain and Italy. He added: "Though I wish to retire some day, I shall retire when I think fit. It is for me to decide, and for no one to dictate...
...upon the list of conductors. With Banker Willoughby George Walling as chairman, the group quickly raised $30,000 in guarantees. Since the Chicago Symphony was also scheduled for free concerts in Grant Park, sponsored by the City and the local Federation of Musicians, the Ravinia organizers had to be content with four concerts over each of five weekends during the summer. With moderate prices they had a good advance sale when the first concert began last week...
...Content with hard cider...
...signed by Sir Samuel Hoare and M. Pierre Laval, with every prospect that it would be accepted by Benito Mussolini and adorned with the signature of Haile Selassie after a little suasion, "The Deal" provided in essence that II Duce should content himself with roughly half of Ethiopia and agree to the continued rule of its Emperor over the rest. Had "The Deal" gone through, Ethiopians would have been spared the horrors of wide spread poison gas warfare; Haile Selassie would have been reigning in Addis Ababa last week instead of being snubbed in London (see p. 20) ; and Britain...