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...Electoral Reform bill (TIME, May 28) is to be discussed during the present session of the Chamber of Deputies. Premier Mussolini approved the draft and the bill will be introduced immediately...
Accordingly, Harding's campaign manager, Will H. Hays, conferred with pro-League Republicans (especially Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, the then President of Cornell University, and Dr. Samuel McCune Lindsay, President of the Academy of Political Science at Columbia Uni- versity), and as result Elihu Root prepared a draft declaration in favor of Harding and an Association of Nations. This draft was discussed at a meeting of the Century Club of New York City. It was finally made public by Dr. Schurman on October 14, 1920, at the University Club, New York, appearing in the press on the following...
...original draft of the Constitution of the United States and the text of the Declaration of Independence are to be placed on exhibition in the Library of Congress...
This is the third conviction for the ex-Secretary of the Communist Party in recent years and his ninth arrest since he entered the revolutionary movement a dozen years ago. During the war he was found guilty of obstructing the draft and sent to an Ohio workhouse. After the war, he was convicted of writing the notorious "left wing" manifesto which split the regular Socialist Party and led to the birth of insurrectionary Communism in America. He was sentenced to ten years in Sing Sing prison and served 18 months before the Appellate Court reversed the decision and released...
...regulations give rise to some delicate international questions. Government officials, anxious to avoid complications, may be expected to draft the new regulations " with discretion." Theoretically a ship carrying liquor, bound for example, from the Bermudas to Canada, would, if its course should chance to come within the three mile limit of the United States, be subject to seizure for illegal importation and transportation of liquor. It is understood, however, that no seizures of foreign vessels will be made; that at most the liquor will be confiscated and certain other penalties imposed. Besides, foreign ships will be allowed to bring into...