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...Chamber Finance Committee a budget squabble seethed hotter every day. erupted on the Sabbath. Deputies vowed they would not stomach Papa Cheron's proposed $213,000.000 of increased taxes and $208,000,000 of economies (TIME, Jan. 23). French postmen threatened to strike if their pay is axed. French veterans sent delegations to Premier Paul-Boncour pleading the "sanctity" of their pensions. Meanwhile the French Taxpayers' Union threatened a "tax strike" unless just such economies as cutting post-men's salaries and veterans' pensions are made. About the only cheerful message Papa Cheron received last week...
...Berkeley, Calif, the sun blazed down, hotter because of a characteristic mist, on Stanford and California. A crowd of 78,000 in light summer clothes watched the two teams, oldest football rivals on the Pacific Coast, end their conference seasons with a scoreless tie in which Stanford, picked to lose, rushed 208 yd. to 124, made seven first downs to the six that California got in the last six minutes...
...fruitless campaign. Wall Street, Eastern Industry and Society were earnestly, almost desperately for the President-but they did not seem enough to blast loose the rock of discontent sunk deep in the electorate at large. The last week of the Republican campaign was much like the first-only hotter. Every member of the Cabinet except Attorney General Mitchell (a nominal Democrat) had done his bit and more for the President. At Dayton Secretary of State Stimson proclaimed President Hoover "a real fighting Quaker, thoroughly aroused, smashing down his opponents' positions one by one with irresistible logic." Secretary...
...recall, is the first colony of any consequence which their young kingdom wrested from Abyssinia (in 1889 when the Kingdom of Italy was only 28 years old). Last week with all her pennants flying the royal yacht Savoia steamed into Massawa, a hot spot on the Red Sea even hotter than famed Aden...
...even hotter water than Amos 'n Andy's Kingfish of the Mystic Knights of the Sea was the Director General of the Loyal Order of Moose last week. Pennsylvania's Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, longtime (1921-30) Secretary of Labor, who took charge of the Moose in 1906 and boosted their membership from 247 to 600,000, was on trial in Manhattan's Federal Court charged with conspiracy to conduct an interstate lottery. In the same boat with the Moose was the Fraternal Order of Eagles, two of whose officers were also indicted two months ago (TIME...