Word: peppered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consequences in the elections of 1924. Senator Hiram Johnson is expected to lead the isolationists in a fight "against the Court at any cost." Senator Capper of Kansas (a farm bloc leader) says that the farmers are "for" the Court. Senator Borah declares that the proposal is "ineffectual." Senator Pepper believes that it is time to "go beyond" the Court and accept the League with modifications." Senator Lodge, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, is lukewarm. As to the Democrats, it is expected that they may back the President's proposal as the best measure practical at the present...
Four weeks ago when Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania was picked by Senator Lodge as a new member .of the Foreign Relations Committee it was generally noted that another irreconcilable had been added?another opponent of President Harding's proposal for participation in the International Court. Politicians all noted that Mr. Pepper had been one of the outstanding opponents of the League?a strict isolationist. As might have been expected, Senator Lodge knew what he was doing...
...Senator Pepper last week completely altered his attitude. He is not only prepared to accept the World Court, but also the League with reservations. Said he: " In my judgment, as the discussion of the International Court proceeds, a sentiment for something bigger and more definite is likely to develop. . . . The League of Nations is being crystalized into the kind of association which the United States can enter." Critics are inclined to comment that it is Senator Pepper and not the League who has " moved over." This is the man who, as Vice President of the League for the Preservation...
...Senator Pepper added, however: " The question will not be an issue in the 1924 Presidential campaign." The leaders of both parties, with the exception of ex-Governor James M. Cox, former Supreme Court Justice John H. Clarke, and ex-President Wilson (who has said nothing on the subject recently), are of this opinion with regard to the League in 1924. Concerning the World Court there is some difference of opinion...
...appears that there is more to the " fireproof coal" scandal than a mere Hearst tour de force. Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania has been enlisted in an aggressive war against a group of coal swindlers in his state. The names of 28 Pennsylvania producers and sellers of adulterated coal have been published under state authority...