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December 7, 1926

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WALSH OPENS FIGHT TO KEEP GOULD OUT; SENATE SEATS HIM; Montana Senator Calls for an Investigation of Bribery Charges Against Maine Senator. RESOLUTION IS LAID OVER Discussion Expected to Begin Today and Its Adoption Is Predicted. MAY PROVE A PRECEDENT Many Believe Action on the Maine Senator Will Affect Vare and Smith Cases Next Year.

By Richard V. Oulahan.special To the New York Times

Seating of A R Gould

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SCHOOL APPEAL LOST BY LIBERTIES UNION; Commissioner Graves Upholds Education Board in Refusing the Use of Hall. HAD RIGHT OF DISCRETION And Union Could Have Found Many Other Places to Discuss Free Speech, Official Asserts. SCHOOL APPEAL LOST BY LIBERTIES UNION

By Special to The New York Times

Graves dismisses appeal

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France Sends Troops to Italian Frontier, With Guns and Tanks, to Avert Fascist Raids

By Copyright, 1926, by the New York Times Company.special Cable To the New York Times

France sends troops to Italian frontier, with guns and tanks, to avert Fascist raids; press comment

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National Dry Poll Is Proposed in Congress, With Compulsion to Hold It at 1928 Election

By Special to The New York Times

Repr Gallivan offers jt resolution for natl vote in 1928, with provision for Federal authorities to conduct it if States do not

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Notable Births

William John McNaughton

1926William John McNaughton, American bishop (died 2020)^[†]

William John McNaughton, M.M. was an American-born Catholic missionary and bishop. As a member of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America (Maryknoll) he was assigned to missions in South Korea. He served as the first Bishop of Incheon from 1961 to 2002.