Word: documented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eternal wrangling and jockeying for position that seems to be the sole occupation of the Senate! Ever since President Wilson returned last July with the peace treaty, the overwhelming sentiment of the nation has been for ratification in one form or another,--few have cared much what. Admittedly the document is imperfect, but nevertheless nine-tenths of the forms of American expression--the press, the pulpit, the colleges, the chambers of commerce, the leading public men, straw votes--for nine months have urged ratification...
Some wanted the treaty passed without change; some wanted it passed with mild, clarifying reservations; some wanted the Lodge reservations; but practically everybody has wanted it ratified and does want it ratified. At first, the administration Senators attempted to put the document through intact, but in vain. The nation clamored for ratification. Again the Democrats tried, with mild reservations, but the Republican group, holding the whip hand, insisted that their conditions be fulfilled without the change of a comma. It was a game of the whole hog or none. Still more concessions have been made by the Democrats, until their...
...Democrats have done their share toward compromise. Is it conceivable that the Republicans will let insignificant differences in a few phrases stand between them and international good will? The good faith of the Republican obstructionists is on trail, Ratification is still possible. The document that promises so much for the future of the world must not be destroyed...
...basis of wage scales. This plan is a most constructive effort to found an industrial cods upon which standard labor decisions may be handed down. It should spread throughout the country and as it does so it will gradually solidify into the needed code of industrial relations. The document of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce committee is likely to become historic as the first declaration of Industrial Democracy...
...German Government is at best unstable," said Professor W. B. Munro '99, of the Department of Government, in speaking before a large gathering of undergraduates at a meeting of the University Forum held in the Parish House of the Unitarian Church last evening, "their new constitution is a document of great interest and importance for several reasons. It establishes a new frame of government for a nation of sixty millions; it expresses the political ideas of the present-day leaders of Germany; and it shows the influence of the American Constitution upon an old world people...