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"Briefly the plan advocates a constitutional amendment to the effect that, in the even of a declaration of war, the property, as well as the persons, lives, and liberties of all citizens, shall be subject to conscription for the defense of the nation. The plan proposes that it shall be...
A nation wide movement in American colleges in support of the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment has culminated in a Students' Conference to be held in Washington on April 5 and 6. Delegates will attend from most of the principal colleges throughout the country to discuss the question.
The team which will meet Princeton at Princeton will uphold the affirmative side of the question: "Resolved, that the provisions of the Platt Amendment regarding Cuba should now be applied to the Philippine Islands." This team will consist of W. D. Morton, Randall Creel and D. RK. Barnes, with L...
The subject under debate is one of unusual interest at the present time. The Platt amendment was a rider attached to an appropriation bill passed in 1901, providing for the independence of Cuba with certain safeguards, which were principally limitation on the pledging of their resources for debts, and the...
¶The Qhamber of Deputies passed by a vote of 505 to 64 the bill regulating the organization of the French Army. Under stress of arguments urging that France must be ready for "the next war," full power was given the Government to order mobilization by decree, without immediate ratification...