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...Michigan the House of Representatives voted down Governor Comstock's plan for state-owned liquor stores, passed a substitute measure allowing "every responsible hotel and merchant" to sell liquor by the package. The Massachusetts House broke a two-day deadlock to pass a measure allowing licensed "taverns" to sell drinks by the glass...
Lots of warm sunshine on a two-day trip down the Potomac aboard the Sequoia knocked out the last remnants of President Roosevelt's cold. As Sunday's sun sank the yacht put in at Washington Navy Yard. At 8 130 he was in his White House study as visitors began to arrive in answer to a special call. In trooped dandified little Secretary of the Treasury Woodin, suntanned Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, portly Attorney General Cummings. At their heels came Federal Reserve Governor Black, R. F. C. Chairman Jones, Currency Comptroller O'Connor, Budget Director Douglas...
...First a day's session was held at Victoria, then a two-day session at Vancouver. The Government of British Columbia asked politely that the banks should be more liberal in their loans, asked that the province and cities should be allowed to borrow directly from the Dominion instead of through the banks. Some businessmen complained that loans were hard to get, because they must be approved by bank officers in the East. Bankers denied this and representatives of several chief industries declared themselves satisfied with bank accommodations offered. Decorum was preserved until an Irish-Canadian barrister, Gerald Grattan...
...races in the third annual Summer School Regatta, held on the Charles on Thursday and Friday. The number of entries, large though it was, was not a record, nor were there many meet records broken, but the men and women rowers chalked up excellent times in a smoothly handled two-day contest. Of the 91 entries, medals were awarded to 18 winners of first and second places, ten of them men and eight female rowers...
James Bryant Conant '14 was announced this morning as the next President of Harvard University, following his election by the Corporation. This announcement came at the beginning of a two-day session of the Board of Overseers, who must approve the Corporation's choice...