Word: acceptation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides functioning officially as President of Columbia Univesity, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler is a Wet Republican and, on occasion, political dogmatist. Last week he strode into a small routine meeting of the Riverside Republican Club in Manhattan, said that President Coolidge will "declare his unwillingness" to accept the Republican 1928 nomination, that Republicans who try to force a third term on the President are looking for fatal trouble, that only a Wet Republican can carry necessary New York State against Governor Smith or Governor Ritchie, that Prohibition ought to be the issue...
...thought the World Court issue was settled in the affirmative. The Senate by a vote of 76-17 had decided that the U. S. should enter the World Court with five reservations. Notes were sent to the Adherent Powers; scarcely an answer came back; Europe was not willing to accept glibly the U. S. scheme of entrance. Early last autumn the Adherent Powers met at Geneva, attached counter-reservations to the U. S. reservations. Several Senators who had voted for the World Court did an about-face. President Coolidge in his Kansas City speech (TIME, Nov. 22) said that, unless...
Last week the issue was again settled. The Senate voted, 59-10, to table Senator Trammell's resolution which would rescind last year's acceptance of the World Court. Said Senators: "We do not wish to waste time discussing it." On the heels of this vote came reports that Great Britain and two other nations had refused to accept the U. S. reservations. A coincidence is always a matter of some importance. Senators issued brief hosannas...
...Please accept my list...
...best knows it is not true. But the Allies have come to realize that Germany, a great republic, cannot be forever fettered down to the letter of the Treaty of Versailles. Germany has disarmed to an extent sufficient to render France safe from aggression. Then why not accept the practical minimum of German armament now achieved, and forget that the Versailles Treaty calls for virtually total disarmament...