The news, as printed onWednesday, September 8, 1926
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As printed: Unanimous Vote of Assembly Admits Former Enemy
ContextShut out since the League was founded in 1920, Germany was promised a permanent council seat at Locarno last year, only for the plan to collapse in March when Spain, Poland and Brazil demanded permanent seats of their own. Today the assembly at Geneva voted her in unanimously and the council seated her at once, enlarging the council from ten members to fourteen — with one permanent chair still held open for the United States.
ContextJack Dempsey has held the heavyweight championship since 1919 and meets challenger Gene Tunney later this month; Tunney is in camp at Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. The mail is bringing him advice, including a diagrammed 'circular punch' warranted to annihilate the champion.
As printed: Governor Leads for Wisconsin Toga by Margin of 11,000
ContextWisconsin Republicans voted yesterday in a contest between Senator Irvine L. Lenroot, a Coolidge man who voted to enter the World Court, and Governor John J. Blaine of the La Follette progressives, who opposed it. With most precincts counted, Lenroot's own committee has conceded the Senate nomination to Blaine — but the progressives lost the statehouse race, where Secretary of State Fred R. Zimmerman leads Attorney General Herman L. Ekern.
ContextHarry M. Daugherty, Attorney General under Harding until he resigned in 1924, and Thomas W. Miller, the former Alien Property Custodian, are charged with conspiring to defraud the government over the release of $7,000,000 from the sale of seized American Metals Company securities. District Attorney Buckner today told the jury the proof will show $441,000 in bribes, with the strings pulled by two dead men — Connecticut national committeeman John T. King and Jess W. Smith, Daugherty's confidant, who killed himself in 1923.
Spain's note of resignation goes to Geneva, and in New York the government begins putting on its case against Daugherty and Miller, with the German metal magnate Richard Merton listed as a witness.
