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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Work Done. Reconvening after the holidays, the House last week: ¶Abolished the cloakroom lunch counter, which Commander George W. Calver, U. S. Navy, health-guardian for Representatives, called "the most unsanitary eating place in the District of Columbia." ¶Debated credits and refunds on income taxes (see below...
...Paul lawyer of national prestige- are now merged into the benign peace pact man, famed from Potsdam, Germany, to Rochester, Minn., where Mrs. Kellogg used to be shy Miss Clara Cook. As 20 nations signed two Pan-American peace pacts under the chairmanship of Secretary Kellogg (see INTERNATIONAL), and as the U. S. Senate seemed disposed to ratify the Kellogg-Briand pact (see SENATE), it could be fairly said that last week Frank Billings Kellogg rode the crest. Therefore, this week is an appropriate time to stroll into the large, nondescript, comfortable home of Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg, on 19th...
Work Done. Reconvening from the Christmas holidays, the Senate last week: ¶Heard Senator Hale speak on the Cruiser Bill (see below). ¶Debated ratification of the Kellogg peace treaty (see...
...Senate was the ratification of the Kellogg peace treaty, already signed by some 60 of the world's nations. As Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Senator Borah had steered it through legislative tangles, had secured for it the right of way over the Cruiser Bill (see col. 2). Crowds gathered in the galleries; political correspondents prepared to hear and to record history. The Kellogg treaty was ready to go over in bursts of Borahtorical splendor...
Through a month of plenary sessions this seating was not changed. When Bolivia quarreled with Paraguay, mother, father and the whole family proceeded to squelch them both (see below). But even that rumpus did not spoil the party, did not prevent the delegates from negotiation and drafting two vital Peace Pacts...