Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Committee for the Outlawry of War, to him belonged much unofficial credit for originating the idea of making war illegal. Ceaseless agitator for peace, he had been recommended by no less a journal than the Manchester Guardian for the Nobel Peace Prize. Quite happy now, he sat back, watched the culmination of his endeavors...
...pleasure to come back to W ashington ... but it is a great relief not to have to assume the duties of an office. . . . I suppose you are interested in what I have been doing while I have been away. . . . I have done a little writing that'you can read if you want to?I have read some of your writing [laughter]. And of course I have done a little fishing. I think I have caught 200 speckled trout this spring...
Later in the afternoon Citizen Coolidge called again at the White House, this time to convey to Mrs. Hoover "the message of love and good wishes Mrs. Coolidge sent." That night, a thoroughly contented man, he took a train back to his Northampton retirement...
...called out 200 National Guardsmen to protect Bouyer "at any hazard" on his journey to Eufaula for trial. The courtroom resembled an armed camp. Bouyer was convicted in ten min utes, sentenced to death, pleaded for a quick execution. Like a person of impor tance, he was then carried back to prison in a special train...
...would be $741,000,000. Great Britain was spending only $547,000,000, France $523,000,000. What concerned him more was the prospect of increases next year and the next and the next, mounting to a total of $803,000,000 in 1933. Looking back he found that an average of $266.000.000 yearly had kept the Army & Navy going before the War. Announced the President...