Word: national
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ironmaster, to whose business he succeeded. He has been president of the O'Leary company since his father's death. Last week he became president also of Chicago Trust Co. In 1916, while president of the Chicago Association of Commerce, he organized, within 48 hours, the largest of the nation's pre-War preparedness parades. In 1925-26 he was president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce; in 1928. vice treasurer of the Republican National Committee...
...Compulsion. Inasmuch as virtually all modern wars are theoretically wars of self-defense, the question immediately arose as to what would prevent a war between two nations, each going to battle under a self-defense plea. Senator Borah admitted that the treaty in no way prevented such a possibility. "A nation must answer to the tribunal of public opinion as to her right to go to war," said he. "The only censor of her action is the power of public opinion...
...prevailing opinion seemed to be that no reservations would be attached to it. Mr. Borah may come out, however, not so much with an instrument that "outlaws war" as with a guarded and general international announcement that war is an extremely deplorable weapon to be used only when a nation really feels it must...
Stephen S. Wise, rabbi snubbed by European Zionists: "I come back a disillusioned and dispirited man after I looked upon the darkest hour of the Jewish nation in many generations. There is no Zionism. It is dead. I thought I was leaving the land in which Zionism was misunderstood and that I would find kindred spirits in Europe...
...University deals with the proposed Federal Reapportionment in Congress, a question now before the House of Representatives and upon which a vote is scheduled to be taken sometime today. Professor Huntington has devoted much study to this matter and is considered one of the leading authorities of the nation on this subject...