Word: opinioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Root thought for a moment? Was it quite fair to turn the casual phrase of the most ingenuous and beloved of dead Democrats into a slogan for a Republican candidate? . . . "and replied, 'Senator Wadsworth of New York'. ... I think that is a general opinion among those who know best...
...demur. On the fifth reservation, however, the conferees became deadlocked, as had been anticipated from the day this reservation was drafted. The fifth reservation is notoriously the "joker" inserted by the Senate to give the U. S. absolute power to prohibit the World Court from handing down "an advisory opinion touching any dispute or question in which the U. S. has or claims an interest."† The resentment of the World Court Adherent Powers at this blanket reservation was pungently expressed last week by the Canadian representative Sir George Eulas Foster, onetime (1888) Canadian Minister of Finance: "The reservation, whereby...
Before adjournment, the conferees appointed a committee of 14 of their number to investigate further formulae of acceptance for Reservation Five, and announced their intention of meeting again in a few weeks. The committee, casting about for some loophole through which compromise can be effected, gave ear to an opinion expressed by President Coolidge last week...
...President informed newsgatherers that in his opinion, a unanimous vote of the Council of the League of Nations is necessary for requesting an advisory opinion from the World Court. Ergo any nation represented on the Council can object and thus prevent the question at issue from being submitted to the World Court. The U.S., declared President Coolidge, is seeking by means of Reservation Five to secure for itself only an equality with nations seated on the League Council...
...Text in full: V. The Court shall not render any advisory opinion, except publicly after due notice to all States adhering to the Court and to all interested States, and after public hearing or opportunity for hearing given to any State concerned; nor shall it without the consent of the United States entertain any request for an advisory opinion touching any dispute or question in which the United States has or claims an interest...