Word: peppered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Lodge mustered five of his Republican colleagues on the Foreign Relations Committee?Pepper, Brandegee, Lenroot, Moses, Wadsworth?and took them to the White House to speak to the President. What the President said, if he said anything, is not known. He had not applauded the plan for a new World Court proposed by Senator Lodge without consulting him (TIME, May 19). It was generally conceded that the Lodge Court was ready for its political obsequies, if it had not been stillborn. What was needed was a new scion, begotten or adopted with the President's assent, one in whom...
...Senators did not get much satisfaction at the White House, at least they went forth with the appearance of it. They appointed Senator George Wharton Pepper to discover a child fit for adoption and to propose a contract under which it would be entirely severed from its former parent and made the Republican Party's very...
...Pepper's Proposal. The Senate should consent to the U. S. becoming adherent to the World Court on the following conditions: 1) that some 16 amendments should be made in the "statute" or charter by which the League created the Court; 2) that the U. S. qualify its adherence to the Court by a number of reservations; 3) that the U. S. in entering the Court should not commit itself, under the optional clause of the statute, to compulsory jurisdiction of the Court...
...John B. Henderson of Washington, planning to spend the Summer abroad, bethought herself of a less fortunate lady, and offered Mrs. Coolidge the use of her private swimming-pool during the early morning hours several times a week. Mrs. Coolidge accepted and asked that Mrs. George Wharton Pepper (Republican, Pennsylvania) and Mrs. Andrieus A. Jones (Democrat, New Mexico) be invited to share the pool with her at the designated hours...
...Senate Foreign Relations Committee has its self avowed eyes and ears-and there are five: Senators Pepper of Pennsylvania, Swanson of Virginia, Shipstead of Minnesota, Brandegee of Connecticut and Pittman of Nevada. These five, on behalf of the full committee, undertook last week to hold public hearings on the proposal that the U.S. participate in the World Court (Permanent Court of International Justice). The subcommittee certainly got an "earful" if not an "eyeful." The list of those who appeared to advocate entrance into the Court was as long as the recital of the Argive ships before Troy. There was former...