Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London, before adjourning for the holidays, the Indian Round Table Conference decided "in principle" that the upper and lower houses of the new Indian Legislature which they are trying to create, shall be called the "Senate" and .the "House of Representatives.'' The Irishmen asked independence but were content with the "Irish Free State," which has a "President" and a "Senate." If Indians would be content with so little, it is still not likely that Britons would grant it. Up to last week the Round Table Conference had not touched the red-hot question of India's status...
Wets in the Finnish Diet, parliament of the world's No. 2 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...
...Socialists (Fascists) who not having seen the film were equally sure that it was a slander on German courage and an insult to Germany's War dead. The Berlin premiere fortnight ago changed few opinions, but Herr Hitler's faithful Nazis took drastic means of expressing their disapproval. Not content with shouting denunciations at the screen, rioting in front of the theatre, they threw stink bombs over the balcony rail, loosed hopfrogs and white mice among the ladies in the orchestra...
...Author. Paul Morand, 42, poet, globetrotter, onetime member of the French diplomatic corps, is tall, dark, silent in company, but says he is happy, content, unruffled and undisturbed. Other (translated) books: Green Shoots, The Living Buddha, Open All Night, Closed All Night...
...Rubicam Inc. as consulting editor; Philip Kobbe of Philip Kobbe, Inc. as promotion specialist. Present Tide Staff Writer Dexter Masters becomes editor, and Frederick Franklin, formerly of Sales Management, business manager. The new company will begin publication with Tide's January issue, will make changes in form and content later...