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Senator William Edgar Borah, Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee was an early proponent of the concept of a treaty "outlawing war." Having lectured on the topic years before Secretary Kellogg took it up, he recently approved the present draft, saying: "The Multilateral anti-war Treaty, if signed this summer, will have right of way in the Senate next winter. ... I look for no serious fight against its ratification...
...Savidge. As the Extraordinary Tribunal retired to thrash out a verdict on the conduct of the police and to draft a formal report to Parliament, one quaint bit of testimony was recalled as deeply and philosophically significant...
...Work's career as a large-scale organizer began during the War, when he gave up his private practice and was put in charge of the medical aspects of the Army draft. Will H. Hays selected Dr. Work to organize the farm vote in the Harding campaign and later retained his services...
...issued to 14 nations a fresh draft of his famed multilateral treaty to outlaw war, as revised to suit France's reservations relative to League of Nations obligations...
...politicians were well-meaning preachers who hired gambling dens for prayer-meetings, and bribed notorious gangsters to attend. Amused and contemptuous, the gangs whirled merrily on down the broad way that leadeth to destruction, their activities culminating in the wholesale looting and burning and carnage known as the 1863 Draft Riots (Lincoln's conscription decree...