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Last week Milwaukee went to the polls, turned out its Socialist city attorney and five of its Socialist city councilmen, turned down eight out of twelve other Socialist candidates for the council, defeated Socialist candidates for city treasurer and city controller, rejected a Socialist proposal for municipal ownership of the local electric company. Milwaukee further demonstrated the extent of its current Red scare (TIME, April 6) when it returnedSocialist Mayor Daniel Webster Hoan to City Hall for his seventh term by 111,167 votes to 97,124 for his Non-Partisan opponent, Sheriff Joseph John Shinners-a majority only...
...victim retaliated by charging several councilmen, including Jack Pool, with cheating. On the third day, after a grilling, he withdrew all charges. Suddenly President Pool rose, took a deep breath, announced that, along with all the members of a French class, he had cheated during his freshman year. Well aware that freshman cheating is not ordinarily cause for suspension, he demanded that he be made an exception. In shocked silence the council voted unanimously to suspend Jack Pool...
...than pay that price, Chartermen would apparently dicker with the Republicans. Meantime, Councilman Bigelow blithely observed: "Perhaps we may never get a Mayor. What's the difference? A Mayor is only a ceremonial figure, a sort of political parsley to adorn ceremonial dinners. Why shouldn't the Councilmen take turns at this sort of punishment, eating meals without money and making speeches without meaning...
This motion was adopted at massive Palazzo Venezia last week in a tumultuous closing of ranks around the Dictator by Italians who were saying in their own way, "We hold these truths to be self-evident. . . ." With Mussolini stood Grand Councilmen whose names the world knows: Marconi, Volpi, Balbo, Grandi and others, scarcely one of whom has not been the butt of anti-Fascist insinuations that he had "quarreled with Mussolini" at one time or another. Air Marshal Italo Balbo, once rumored "banished'' to the post of Governor of Libya by the "jealous" Dictator, has been in Rome...
Technically the Committee of Thirteen has until next spring to draw up its report and under Article XII all League States, including Italy and Ethiopia, are bound not to go to war in a given dispute until three months after the Council has rendered its report. Councilmen said last week that they expect to report within a fortnight...