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...under which the confiscation was made. Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, the law's author, and one of the originators of the whole oil investigation, declared he was sure his law would withstand Supreme Court scrutiny; announced his intention of introducing to Congress another law, to compel just such reluctant witnesses as Mr. Blackmer* to testify willy-nilly- when they can be caught before they leave...
...having held two other posts in the interim, he attended the Genoa conference and soon afterwards became ambassador to both China and Japan. It was while in the Orient that he contracted the disease that was so to torment him as to compel him to take his own life...
...work on the case up to the time of the debate, and the speakers will not be chosen until two days before the team meets its English opponents. The coaches state that this method will develop a stronger case by having more men at work upon it, and will compel each of the six men to exert his best efforts until the case is ready to be presented. The plan is to give as many men as possible the intensive practice incident to preparing for an important debate, the coaches assert, so that a body of experienced material will...
...describe one of God's noblemen as "Blatant," "considering himself the Missionary to the Mormons?" Certainly nothing in his article would lead to that conclusion and again, certainly, if you knew the man, nothing could be more foreign to him, and your sense of fairness would compel you to make an immediate retraction. Just a little more courtesy where an honorable man is involved...
This revision to compel the signatory nations to keep their capital ships for 26 years-instead of scrapping them at the end of 20 years and building improved ships, as at present...