State Sec H L Stimson has investigation begun on reptd firing by rum-runners on customs patrol vessel; Detroit rept says 4 shots were fired after bootleggers had crossed internatl boundary

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JAPAN PLEDGES AID IN NAVAL CUT MOVE BY BRITAIN AND US; State Department Gets Word That Premier Tanaka Backs Arms Reduction Plans. WASHINGTON IS PLEASED Premier Told Charge That the Nation Wants Peace and Less Outlay for War. HOWARD AND BORAH CONFER They Discussed Freedom of Seas, Capital Thinks--Britten Urges Parley Outside the League.

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Conf with Sen Borah on armament limitation negoitations

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1929Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, English sociologist, journalist, and academic (born 1864)^[†]

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, FBA was an English liberal political theorist and sociologist, who has been considered one of the leading and earliest proponents of social liberalism. His works, culminating in his famous book Liberalism (1911), occupy a seminal position within the canon of New Liberalism.

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1929An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.^[†]

Dwight Whitney Morrow was an American businessman, diplomat, and politician, best known as the U.S. ambassador who improved U.S.–Mexico relations, mediating the religious conflict in Mexico known as the Cristero rebellion (1926–29), but also contributing to an easing of conflict between the two countries over oil. The Morrow Mission to Mexico was an "important step in the 'retreat from imperialism.' " He was the father of Anne Morrow and father-in-law of Charles A. Lindbergh.

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Dry Boat Damages Yacht in Vain Liquor Hunt; H.K. Knapp Will Protest to the Government

French Blame 'Yankee Intolerance' for Ban Excluding Haitian Official From Dance Club

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