Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Watson. In Indiana, Candidate Watson & friends found a kettle as black as their pot. They found, or said they found, Will H. Hays & friends behind the Hoover candidacy there. No denial coming direct from Candidate Hoover, the Watson-Hoover battle in Indiana temporarily assumed the aspect of local gang war...
World Peace. To the Council on Foreign Relations, at a banquet in Manhattan presided over by John W. Davis, Secretary Kellogg expounded "The War Prevention Policy of the United States." He generalized on the subject of multilateral treaties to outlaw war in such a way as to inform Foreign Minister Briand of France-who at about that time was nibbling his pen in Paris over an answer to Secretary Kellogg's last note-that the U. S. will not consider any military alliance to prevent war, but only a peaceful compact, and that the U. S. does...
...Passed (for the third time since 1922) a bill raising to 75% of their active service pay the retirement pay of 3,030 emergency Army officers who were disabled 30% or more in the World War; sent it to the House...
...Listened to Vice President Dawes while he read an epistle from Congressional Medalist Lindbergh inviting each & every Senator to fly with him last week*.¶ Amended, passed and sent to the House the Norris resolution ordering the War Department to complete and operate the Government's $140,000,000 wartime power plants at Muscle Shoals, Ala., on the Tennessee River, and ordering the Department of Agriculture to experiment with making cheap nitrate fertilizers there, for sale at cost to farmers. ¶ Rejected by 39 votes to 29 the renomination of John Jacob Esch of Wisconsin to the Interstate Commerce...
...members of the House are such good sportsmen that, when what happened did happen they were really wrung with sympathy for bumptious Mr. Brand, after whose name in Who's Who appears the proud legend, "member of the Butter and Milk Commission under Herbert Hoover during the World War," but upon whose soul now rests the necessity of supporting the curious "boom" of his fellow Ohioan, Senator Willis. Never did a big butter-&-milk man undertake a braver job than attacking a once honored chief for the sake of a boss to whom he was now obligated. And never...