Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Salmon Oliver Levinson, 63. robust, mender of broken corporations, was one of the few civilians invited to the White House ceremony for the promulgation of the general Treaty for the Renunciation of War, because, as Chairman of the American Committee for the Outlawry of War, to him belonged much unofficial credit for originating the idea of making war illegal. Ceaseless agitator for peace, he had been recommended by no less a journal than the Manchester Guardian for the Nobel Peace Prize. Quite happy now, he sat back, watched the culmination of his endeavors...
...Levinson could catch only_ words, phrases: "Conscience and idealism of civilized nations. . . . New step. ... Magnificent response of the world to these proposals. ... I congratulate this assembly ... the entire world upon the coming into force of this additional instrument of humane endeavor to do away with war...
...first time since March 4, Citizen Calvin Coolidge returned to the Washington news spotlight. He enjoyed the experience immensely. From Northamp ton to the capital he had journeyed over night to attend the White House promul gation of the General Treaty for the Renunciation of War, creature of his own administration (see col. 1). Observers studied him sharply for changes, found that he talked more freely, smiled more benignly, looked a little less plump, a little less wrinkled about the eyes than when he had left the White House. If he had any regrets on revisiting the scenes...
Upon the instruments of War last week President Hoover bent a mind primed for Peace. Logic and economy were his inspirations: logic, to make U. S. national defense congruous with the General Treaty for the Renunciation of War; economy, to make a tax cut possible...
...France $523,000,000. What concerned him more was the prospect of increases next year and the next and the next, mounting to a total of $803,000,000 in 1933. Looking back he found that an average of $266.000.000 yearly had kept the Army & Navy going before the War. Announced the President...