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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maine has been a Dry State for 75 years. Arthur Robinson Gould was elected in 1926 as one of its Dry Senators. Last week Senator Gould, 72-year-old Yankee, was involuntarily shown to be not so Dry as many of his constituents had supposed. The revelation came during a legal squabble between two grape juice companies in Federal Court in St. Louis.* A distributing company was suing a producing company on the ground that its product was inferior, that it spoiled in customers' hands before turning to wine as guaranteed. To defend itself the producing company exhibited testimonials...
William R. Castle Jr. is Assistant Secretary of State at Washington...
...thousand or so Republican delegates crowded into Richmond's Shrine temple for a state convention. Mr. Slemp was still smiling wisely when he arose, proposed and had his fellow Republicans nominate a Democrat for Governor. The Democrat was Prof. William Moseley Brown of Washington and Lee University, already nominated by the anti-Smith-Raskob wing of his own party (TIME, July, 1). Regular Republicans and the Democrats who had followed Bishop James Cannon Jr. out of their party at Roanoke last fortnight thus coalesced against the regular Democratic state organization. The band played "Dixie." A platform was adopted without...
...Slemp's visit to the White House bore fruit when President Hoover telegraphed the Richmond convention that its action "added proof of the purpose of the people of your great State to rise and remain above the level of single party control in local government," and that it would "prove an inspiration to other States throughout the South to do likewise...
...title was his second sacrifice of the month for the Labor Party. Because his attainments made it a necessity that he be a member of the new MacDonald Cabinet, he relinquished his plan to retire after his 70th birthday, which occurs this month, and became Secretary of State for the Colonies & Dominions. Not having entered the recent election he holds no seat in the House of Commons and had perforce to become a peer because the English Parliamentary system demands that a Cabinet Minister sit in one House or the other. Also announced last week were the customary "dissolution honors...