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...served five terms (1917-27) in the U. S. House of Representatives, ever faithful to La Follettism. Brother Charles S. Voight, on the other hand, happily reminded people that La Follettism once meant Pacifism, and perhaps worse; that he, Charles S. Voight, helped sell Liberty Bonds, helped the local draft board, and spoke like a patriot "even in the German language...
Prime Minister Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha attained the focus of interest when he recently submitted to party leaders the draft treaty which he negotiated in London, during King Fuad's visit there (TIME, July...
...President Coolidge's willingness to waive the question of State-shared costs, except in principle, for the present, so that work might get started on the rivers below Illinois at once, Mayor Thompson's bluster vanished. He went back to Chicago saying he would work to draft Mr. Coolidge again for President. When Representative Reid next called at the White House he found that his large friend had made no dent in the Coolidge opposition to the Reid bill...
...present Conference, Seiior Pueyrredon has unalterably insisted it should make some definite pronouncement against high tariff barriers-that is to say, against high U. S. tariffs. By hard, driving diplomacy he got such a pronouncement tentatively recognized for insertion into the preamble of a stuffed-shirt treaty draft reorganizing the Pan-American Union.-Last week U. S. pressure resulted in the striking out of Pueyr-redon's preamble clause. From Buenos Aires came, allegedly, instructions that he should knuckle under and sign the treaty draft...
...Conference then began to draft a program of civil and military reorganization along strictly conservative lines...