Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor in 1827. When his wife left him, he resigned as Governor and went to live with the Cherokees whom he had helped eject from the State. President Jackson sent him to Texas to make Indian treaties. Texans were at that point (1833) citizens of Mexico. Sam Houston helped draft their petition to the Mexican Congress to be separated from Coahuila as a Mexican State. The petition was refused. Independence was declared. Sam Houston was chosen Commander-in-chief of the Texan Army. On "San Jacinto Day" (April 21) Texans still celebrate the final victory of his 743 raw troopers...
...projected deportation was argued last night in the final round of the Ames Competition is no theoretical dilemma, propounded by professors, but a case now before the Supreme Court of the United States for review, in the original, Mr. Nemo is a Chinese named Bee who registered for the Draft, and was thereupon arrested under the Chinese Exclusion Act for being unlawfully in this country. His rights were upheld by three Boston lawyers in the lower courts for years of bitter litigation. So many legal difficulties developed that the case has become seriously considered by jurists as come seriously considered...
...February 6, the arbitration treaty between France and the U. S. expires. Last week Secretary of State Kellogg gave French Ambassador Claudel the first draft of a new treaty to send home on approval. It was proposed that the U. S. and France agree...
...when Chairman William Morgan Butler of the National Committee declared himself for Kansas City, Mo. The Committee bridled and said it would not be led by the nose. Supporters of Committeeman William Henry Crocker of California obliged Chairman Butler to wait until the 20th ballot before they joined the draft-Coolidge delegates and the flatter-the-farmer delegates in obedience to Chairman Butler. The Republican National Convention will meet at "the heart of America," 1,089 delegates strong, on June...
...Hoover maintained an industrious silence last week in his big, bare office at the Department of Commerce. His friends were discreetly jubilant. First to swing from the draft-Coolidge movement to Mr. Hoover's support was Committeeman Rentfro Banton Creager, "Red Headed Rooster of the Rio Grande" (TIME, Dec. 12), representing 26 Texas delegates...