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...flying trip to Detroit to shame the Legion out of asking for immediate payment in full of its adjusted service certificates (TIME, Sept. 28). At Olympia Arena the resolutions committee placed before the 1,415 delegates a measure asking for a submission of the Prohibition question to State referenda. Hitherto the Legion's Dry element has blocked similar measures by raising a point of order, declaring that Prohibition is not the Legion's business. This time National Commander Ralph T. O'Neil from the bone-Dry State of Kansas was prepared. Banging on the Legion...
...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 Constitution does not provide for public referenda.) Finnish observers credited this parliamentary Wetness last week to the final windup of the famed Stahlberg kidnapping case, an affair whose origin had nothing whatever to do with Prohibition. Two months ago, after frugally breakfasting on bread and butter, porridge and coffee, out for a walk went Finland...
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...well pointed Wet-&-Dry contest between Mrs. McCormick and Mr. Lewis in Illinois aroused widespread interest. The State is nominally Republican by 500,000 votes. Also it has been proved thoroughly Wet, according to polls and referenda...
...Anti-Saloon League voted: 1) to get its friends to leave it large inheritances; 2) to oppose all referenda on Prohibition; 3) to intensify its propaganda; 4) to secure more Federal money and men for enforcement...