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...Senator Lodge mustered five of his Republican colleagues on the Foreign Relations Committee???Pepper, Brandegee, Lenroot, Moses, Wadsworth?and took them to the White House to speak to the President. What the President said, if he said anything, is not known. He had not applauded the plan for a new World Court proposed by Senator Lodge without consulting him (TIME, May 19). It was generally conceded that the Lodge Court was ready for its political obsequies, if it had not been stillborn. What was needed was a new scion, begotten or adopted with the President's assent, one in whom...
Better than these figures, as indication of Coolidge's invincibility in the Convention, was the President's announcement that he wanted William M. Butler to be Chairman of the Republican National Committee???to manage the President's election campaign as he has managed the primary campaign. This is a post which for many years has been filled according to the choice of the nominee. It is yet six weeks before Coolidge can be the nominee. But what need was there to wait for the whistle to blow when the score stood...
...insurgents moved for the abolition of the Steering Committee???a part of their tactics for revision of the rules. The entire object of their tactics was to revise the rules so that they can force discussion on the floor of any bill reported out of committee...
...investigations into the sudden rise in the price of sugar from seven to ten cents by charges of Senator Reed Smoot of Utah against sugar refiners. Senator Smoot's attitude bears weight because he is next in line by seniority right for the chairmanship of the Senate Finance Committee???the committee which passes on tariff measures. What is more, he comes from Utah, one of the four leading beet sugar producing states. These states (Colorado, Utah, Michigan and California) produce over 70% of native beet sugar...