Word: draft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Federal Judge David C. Westenhaver, 63, potent jurist, sentencer of the late Eugene V. Debs to prison for a seditious speech, releaser of thousands of alleged "draft dodgers" after the War; of heart disease; in Cleveland, Ohio...
Senator William Edgar Borah, Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee was an early proponent of the concept of a treaty "outlawing war." Having lectured on the topic years before Secretary Kellogg took it up, he recently approved the present draft, saying: "The Multilateral anti-war Treaty, if signed this summer, will have right of way in the Senate next winter. ... I look for no serious fight against its ratification...
...draft text of a law authorizing vivisection of humans in an effort to discover a cure for cancer was unanimously approved, last week, by the board of National Sanitation at Havana, Cuba, and sent to the Cuban Congress for debate, action...
...Savidge. As the Extraordinary Tribunal retired to thrash out a verdict on the conduct of the police and to draft a formal report to Parliament, one quaint bit of testimony was recalled as deeply and philosophically significant...
...issued to 14 nations a fresh draft of his famed multilateral treaty to outlaw war, as revised to suit France's reservations relative to League of Nations obligations...