Word: interring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While Mr. Gillett's seat is in jeopardy, largely for inter-party tactical reasons, another very real contest has been waged between two other factions for the Republican floor leadership of the House. The conservatives, or " reactionaries," as they are called by their opponents, proposed Representative Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, husband of Alice Roosevelt, for that post. The progressives, a group more to be identified with the Hiram Johnson than the LaFollette type, proposed William J. Graham of Illinois. The odds seemed to be in favor of Mr. Longworth, but probably concessions will have to be made to the Graham...
...constructive side the Party advocated reopening full relations with Russia; free trade; credit on enterprise, such as development of internal transport by road and water, to cure unemployment; afforestation; reclamation and drainage of land; development of Imperial resources; railway building in the overseas nations; emigration; cheapening of inter-Imperial transit; remodeling of the Insurance (TIME, Nov. 19) and Poor Relief Acts; promotion or cooperation between Capital and Labor; Government assistance to farmers...
...Poincare cabled M. Jusserand, French Ambassador at Washington, that as the U. S. Government had banned discussion of inter-allied debts, France must bar discussion of a reduction of Germany's debt to. her. He also stated that France would accept no negitiations which brought up the question of the occupation of the Ruhr. In his Sunday sermon at Brive he was as intractable as ever and accused the Germans of being " able to pay the cost in Anglo-Saxon countries of frenzied propaganda to inspire the pity of charitably inclined souls...
...impressions of Europe should be of the greatest value. People are weary of hearing about the "mess in Europe" but they are weary because they get nothing but second-hand reports and cross-reports. One may be sure that the words of the United States representative on the Inter-Allied Rhineland Commission will be fresh, clarifying and weighty...
General Allen was commander-in-chief of the American forces on the Rhine frontier before their withdrawal two years ago, and later became the United States representative on the Inter-Allied Rhineland Commission. He saw active service in the St. Mihael and Argonne offensives during the war, and before our participation was on the Mexican border with General Pershing. When Pershing, at the bead of an expeditionary force, made an incursion into Mexican territory in 1916, General Allen was commander of the cavalry section of this force...