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Parliament was opened and during its three-day session nothing of importance occurred, except the defeat of a vote of censure on the Government's domestic policy, moved by Ramsey MacDonald, the Laborite Leader of the Opposition, by 285 to 190 votes. Subsequently Mr. Lloyd George condemned the proposed dissolution as " ill-considered, precipitate, foolish." " Can lobsters, crayfish and crabs," he demanded in referring to the results of the Imperial Conference (TIME, Nov. 19), "bind the Empire by trade? It is a tinker's policy. The Government is going to the country with a tin can tied...
Baltimoreans expect to have the Chicago Civic Opera Company in their city for a three-day stay during the coming season. Negotiations for this are under way. The Baltimore people insist upon the following three attractions: Mephistopheles, with Chaliapin; La Juive, with Raisa; a Mary Garden opera. In other words, they want stars...
...Central Atlantic states with beer from an anonymous "brewery city." He cunningly fed the hopes of the bootleggers. He accepted $25,000 in advance bribes, a fur overcoat and an automobile of anonymous make (specifically not a Rolls-Royce). He allowed himself to be taken on a three-day party to Atlantic City and elsewhere while the bootleggers recklessly dissipated "grands" ($1,000 bills). He had them show him where their contraband was hidden. Under his encouragement the original syndicate of "six to nine" brewery-bootleggers grew to 15, and plans were laid for inducing 50 to join the criminal...
...Twelve miles north-by-east of Columbus, Ohio, is the center of American morality," declared a Wet editor, referring to Westerville, Ohio. At Westerville 40 state superintendents of the Anti-Saloon League held a three-day convention to draw up plans for the coming year. On comparing notes, they agreed that the Atlantic states are not more than 50% dry and the country as a whole not more than 70% dry, and they decided that the next five years would be the hardest for them-that full enforcement of the Volstead Act cannot be attained before...
...American section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom held a three-day conference in Washington. The World Court and diplomatic recognition of Russia were the chief subjects of debate. An affiliated committee sent telegrams to the President and to Secretary Hughes protesting against " the worn-out excuses" offered by our Government for not recognizing Russia...