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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...considered in Article IX of the Treaty that mutual guarantees would afford ample security to the contracting parties; therefore a reduction of armaments is rendered feasible. All the Powers would inform the League "of the reduction of armaments which they consider proportionate to the safety furnished." Afterwards the League would allot armaments to each nation after due consideration of their reports. These allotments would be subject, if necessary, to revision every five years...
...with great distress that I have to inform you officially of the death of President Harding. In his death the nation suffers an irreparable loss; to me personally it is the loss of a true friend...
...operators took occasion to inform the public that if there should be a coal strike on September 1 there would probably be sufficient coal on hand to keep off the chill till February of next year...
Representative Kelly (Republican) of Pennsylvania, was obliged to turn away a pension seeker. Saying that he "thought such patriotic service should be rewarded," Mr. Kelly was yet obliged to inform the applicant that Uncle Sam had no special pensions for mothers who bore twins...
...States vessels dry on the high seas, they have now, instead, to keep all vessels, American and foreign, dry within the three mile limit. The Treasury Department is drawing up regulations for enforcement according to the new interpretation of the law. Secretary Mellon has asked the State Department to inform foreign governments of the changed regulations to which all vessels arriving in the United States after June 10 will be subject. The date was set so far ahead in order that all foreign vessels might have time to comply...