Word: documented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Detroit Chamber, however, brought the question to the fore by producing a voluminous report on the subject, which may briefly be characterized as favoring peace, prosperity and greater mutual understanding. At the conclusion of this document was a resolution, calling upon the International Chamber of Commerce to arrange for "a general international economic conference to deal with the important question involved in the restoration of world-wide prosperity...
...document is entitled: AN AFFIRMATION Designed to Safeguard the Unity and Liberty of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. It declares that, within large limits, Presbyterian ministers are free to think as they please in matters theological. It is signed by ISO ministers of 30 states, and was mailed to the 10,000 Presbyterian divines...
...balloting, the Bok Prize Peace Plan does not command the same enthusiastic attention given recently to the Prohibition referendum. Whereas nearly three thousand men voted on the latter question in one day, there have been so far only 750 interested enough to indicate their opinions of the prize-winning document. The overwhelming approval of the plan is somewhat surprising, considering the usual diversity of ideas noticeable in the University on any subject...
...Senator Lodge, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, defended the refusal of the Administration to recognize the Soviet regime in Russia. He read portions of a 30,000 word document to show that every important official of the Soviet Government, except Tchichernin is a member of the Communist Party, which engages in revolutionary propaganda in this country. Senator Borah took up the cudgels in defense of the Soviet Government, declaring that the time had come for recognition, and asserting that there was ample precedent for recognizing Russia since we had recognized the revolutionary government of France in the 18th Century...
Unless one is a rabid isolationist determined to let the rest of the world go hang, one must admit that the Bok Prize Plan is one the whole a sound and well-reasoned document. The first provision--to join the World Court--has already received wide-spread public approval, and the many refinements which have been made upon whether this does or does not mean getting sucked into the League of Nations are cast aside by the second provision. The latter provides for a gradual widening of American cooperation with the League which would lead eventually to membership pari passu...