Word: outlaw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...object was to put momentum behind the Department's cruiser-building bill (15 cruisers, 1 aircraft carrier) which got delayed in the last session of Congress and which, in the imminent session, appears impeded by the simultaneous emergence and solemn language of the latest and greatest treaty "to outlaw war as an instrument of national policy...
...Song. Theatre-goers well know that the post-War reconstruction period has not ended though a decade's years have intervened since Nov. 11, 1918. Critics & others, sated with many a propagandrama for or against hostilities, frequently have wished for a pact to outlaw war as an instrument of national amusement policy. But let no critic ban war or dressmaking or boxing or any other subject as a playground if playsmiths can use war, dressmaking or boxing to a worthy end, as in this piece...
...TIME, Jan. 16). He "fired" the officials who had annoyed him and went ahead with his gasoline station. But neighbors pressed their suit and last week Mayor Gillis,was sentenced, by a county judge, to 330 days in jail and a fine of $1,140. "This man is an outlaw," said the judge, who some years ago had sentenced the man for mouthing profanities in public...
Sunday dawned. Eve of the signing. In Canada, Germany, elsewhere, pastors thought of the French capital to which their captains and kings had departed to outlaw what has often been the business of captains and kings. In Toronto, Canon Plumptre dedicated the service of St. James's Cathedral to the signing of the treaty. Later, militaristic Author Rudyard Kipling's Recessional was sung. In Berlin, General Superintendent of Evangelical Churches Herr Doktor Martin Bibilius spoke in the same wise but made no mention of Imperialist Kipling...
Fiercely, Miner Clark fought with Miner Daly. They battled for land titles, for the tribal leadership of the outlaw camp. All through the '90s, while Montana was becoming a state, the enemies sparred for position. Clark's great triumph came in 1899. With $431,000, his lieutenants bought him a seat in the U. S. Senate. Their slogan: "Every man who votes for Clark is to be paid, and the men who vote for him without being paid are fools." After he was elected, he poured $30,000 worth of champagne into Helena, the capital...