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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rightful reprisals" was made last week the basis of a five-volume defense of German War practices. Onetime Minister of Justice Dr. Johannes Bell presented the report, entitled "International Law In the World War" to the Reichstag. The five volumes represent seven years of labor by a "nonpartisan" board of German scholars appointed by the Weimar Constitutional Assembly (1919). The Committee concludes that, in nearly all instances, weapons discountenanced by international law were first employed by the Allies and then adopted in "rightful reprisal" by The Central Powers...
...Jason Noble Pierce (President Coolidge's Congregational pastor in Washington, D. C.) was sued for $50,000 libel by one Howard T. Cole, U. S. Shipping Board engineer, who complained that Dr. Pierce had sent deacons to spy on his actions with young women, then charged him with moral turpitude in letters recommending his dismissal by the Shipping Board. Mr. Cole was not a member of Dr. Pierce's church...
President Coolidge and "Texas" Guinan, Manhattan night club proprietress, were strangely linked by the New Student (intercollegiate clipsheet). Each had refused to give interviews to freshmen competitors for the editorial board of the Princetonian (undergraduate daily). President Coolidge was speciously said to be reluctant to meet "a reporter from a college with Princeton's strong Democratic traditions." Proprietress Guinan was wary because Prohibition agents had once used the ruse of a college youth seeking an interview to hand her an injunction which padlocked one of her raucous night clubs...
Virgil Jordan, chief economist of the National Industrial Council, at its Conference Board meeting in Manhattan: "The business forecaster who attempts to predict the business outlook for the rest of this year and for 1928 is up against it, if he relies upon most of the current and fashionable methods [of prognosticating]. For some reason the old medicine no longer works. . . . There may be a slight further recession in business for a short time, but it is likely to end in a real business boom, rather than in a genuine depression...
...Hickey, secretary of the National Industrial Council, at its Conference Board meeting in Manhattan: "If our leaders of government and the people of the United States really care about the liberties for which our forefathers fought, bled and died; if they want a general restoration of our institutions of law and orderly social progress, they must promptly unite in halting the present ceaseless and unnecessary making of laws by Congress and the state legislatures...