Word: voiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this small, wizened Galahad of Peace. Election was by the Assembly and Council of the League of Nations,† sitting separately and secretly last week in Swiss Geneva (see col. 2). Of 51 assembly ballots cast by as many nations, League tellers threw out four as "defective and void." An easy but not spectacular winner, Mr. Kellogg received 30 votes. How many League Council ballots Mr. Kellogg received no Councilmen knew, for their votes are never announced. Bouquets. First of League statesmen to toss a bouquet at Court Judge Kellogg (who business-tripped last week from Washington to Manhattan...
...Moscow the statesmen of Soviet Russia presumably feel that in declaring the entire agreement and its arbitral structure void they acted in a spirit of goodwill, fairdealing and reasonable interpretation. Their principal overt grudge against Lena for the past several years has been that her mining camps were "centers of counterrevolution and nests of British spies"-a. charge frequently hurled in the Moscow press...
...bunk" (TIME, Sept. 1). Last week Scoffer Julian showed no signs of penitence but obtained an injunction preventing the State Corporation Commission from taking any action against his oil company for non-curtailment. If Mr. Julian succeeds in proving that proration by law is "unconstitutional and void," the unhappy oil industry may again be in a grave crisis...
Chief reservationists were Senators Johnson, Hale, McKellar. Among other things they proposed that: 1) Britain give up her naval bases at Halifax and Bermuda; 2) U. S. entry into the World Court or League of Nations would void the Treaty; 3) All parties to the Treaty guarantee "Freedom of the Seas" to belligerents as well as neutrals in time of war; 4) The division of cruisers into gun categories is only a "temporary expedient" which would not bind the U. S. at future conferences; 5) The 10-6 naval ratio between the U. S. and Japan should be restored...
Daily the suave Mexicans who work the "Morelos racket" in the U. S. have tried to soothe irate clients, threatening clients, clients who pushed into their offices and had hysterics. Reason: The Supreme Court of Mexico recently declared null and void the Puente Code or Divorce Law of Morelos which was promulgated in 1927 by Provisional Governor Ambrosia Puente without being approved by the State Legislature...