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...renounce-war-as-an-instrument-of-national-policy. As usually happens in the U.S. foreign relations, a group of Senators was seen forming to pass strictures. Their reasons ranged from the super-patriotism of New 'Hampshire's Moses to the wordy scorn of Maryland's Bruce, who called the treaty a "futile gesture" and an "anemic pact" for which he would vote only to move the U.S. closer to the World Court and the League of Nations...
...Debated and debated the House appropriations bill for the Treasury and Post Office departments; put in a joker for $270,000,000 to enforce prohibition at Senator Bruce's instigation; sent it to conference; adopted the conference report, taking out the joker and leaving $13,500,000 for prohibition, by vote of 38 to 35; sent the bill to the President. Said Senator Bruce: "The way to get rid of a bad law is to enforce...
...Bruce Caldwell, famed Yale footballer. was last year given a contract to play professional football for the New York Giants, after being declared ineligible at Yale. His pay was twice as large as that of any other member of the team. Last week his contract expired and, because he had not played well for the Giants, it was not renewed...
...known is the fact that Missouri's cigar-gnawing Senator Reed disapproves of the Treaty and would like to defeat it as a crowning event of his irreconcilable career. Other opponents are California's Johnson, New Hampshire's Moses, Minnesota's Shipstead. Maryland's Bruce, bumbling against the Treaty last week, called it "utter inanity...
Making certainty doubly certain that Dryness was, at least outwardly, more ascendant than ever, were the Congressional returns. As every one knows, few Congressmen vote as they drink. Outspokenly wet Senators are especially rare. Next year they will be rarer. The two wettest-Maryland's Bruce and New Jersey's Edwards-lost their seats. So did Rhode Island's Gerry, Delaware's Bayard. Missouri's vindictive Reed retires and Missouri's Roscoe C. Patterson will...