Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some hours before the Kellogg dinner, the President had sent to the Senate the Kellogg-Briand multilateral treaty for the renunciation of war. He accompanied it with a dignified exhortation: "The fact that I approve of the treaty is well known," he stated. "I hope that it may come into force with the least possible delay and I should be pleased if the Senate should take such action during the present session as to enable the U. S. to ratify the treaty before the expiration of my term of office." Equally well known is the fact that Missouri...
...view of his Insull connection and of the Insull part in a political deal which the Senate has condemned, that many a Senator was grumbling about Secretary West's appointment, which President Coolidge last week asked the Senate to confirm. Honest man though Secretary West may be, his past affiliations and investments could not have been more provoking to Senatorial sensibilities. In an atmosphere still surcharged with the Interior Department (oil) scandals of the Harding era and lately recharged by outcries against the so-called Power Trust, it looked very much as though Secretary West's appointment would...
...Agriculture, who are also Power Commissioners. But if the decision goes against Senator-resigned du Pont, their presence will not greatly temper the Senate's disapproval of Mr. Insull and the Insull lawyer, Secretary West. Senator-resigned du Pont is, moreover, a Republican; so his Senator friends may feel free to transgress strict party allegiance in a vote on Secretary West...
...Harry Stewart New had to report that his branch of the Government, theoretically, selfsupporting, showed a deficit of 33 millions for 1928, an increase of $5,000,000. But he was not downhearted. Establishing and popularizing the Air Mail had been an extraordinary expense. Some day the Air Mail may more than pay for itself and, anyway, it is a valuable encouragement to U. S. aeronautics. Mr. New urged that similar encouragement be given the U. S. Merchant Marine by extending U. S. mail contracts to U. S. shippers...
...breaking the birth control law of Ohio, which states that no person shall sell, exhibit, give information about or use any contraceptive. A Federal law and the various laws of other states are almost as stringent. In New York State, however, there are two birth control clinics which may give advice when essential to a wife's health or to save life...