Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, millionaire American draft evader (who escaped in 1920 from Governor's Island by plying his guards with liquor), shot dead one man and wounded another when they attempted to seize him in his apartment at a hotel in Eberbach, Baden, Germany. Out side the hotel, in an old U. S. army car, waited Lieutenant Griffith, U. S. Army, and "Prince" Gargarin, a Russian. After the shooting a crowd menaced the two in the car, who promptly started for Heidelberg and were arrested en route, charged with attempting to kidnap Bergdoll. Bergdoll went free of any homicidal...
Major General Enoch H. Crowder, V. S. A., retired, Ambassador to Cuba, was ordered by Secretary of State Hughes to return to Washington to confer on the Cuban situation. General Crowder, former Judge Advocate General of the Army, author of the details of the military draft during the War, has in several capacities been the protecting genius of Cuba ever since the Spanish War. Lately he has been responsible for the financial rehabilitation of that country. His instructions to return to Washington indicate serious concern on the part of the State Department over the financial course adopted by the Cuban...
...British note to Germany was sent to Paris, Rome, Brussels, Tokyo, Washington, through the respective Ambassadors in London. An early reply to the draft was demanded from the first four; to Washington it was made clear that an answer was not expected, but would, nevertheless, be welcome. After the Allied replies have been received the British Government will endeavor to reconcile the comments by modifying, as far as is consistent with its policy, the final draft of the note, which will then be sent to the German Government...
...creed which was manifest in the care shown in the writing of his novels. The Gang, a picture of boy life and street life in Manhattan, was received with unusual praise in England as well as in the United States. Of his new novel, he has already destroyed one draft. He says that to him the greatest of America's literary sins is that a novelist seems to be expected to publish at least one book a year. He tried in The Gang to present a faithful picture of the folkways of New York City?extraordinary, colorful folkways, as native...
...April, 1920, the Allies at the San Remo Conference agreed to give Great Britain the mandate for Palestine. The draft Mandate was submitted to the League of Nations in December, 1920, after Turkey had renounced her sovereignty over the country by signing the Treaty of Sevres in August, 1920. The Mandate for Palestine was not, however, passed by the Council of the League until July...