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...served until 1921, during the War doing good service on the Senate Military Affairs Committee, of which he became Chairman. He pushed the Selective Draft Bill ; he introduced a bill, early in 1918, for a War Cabinet and criticized the War Department freely. This brought him into contest with Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War, and drew the wrath of Woodrow Wilson upon his head...
...Coast-Range Christ is of David Carrow, whose innocence knew only love for Christ. David spurned James O'Farrell's wife, fled the War draft, hid in the hills, praying. O'Farrell's wife, Iscariotwise, led a manhunt in the dark. When David took his fierce old father's bullet in the breast, a blinding apocalypse came down upon the hills...
...years later, he was reflected, and about at that time resigned his post on the Progressive National Commitee. In 1916, he was back in the Republican Party, taking an active part in the convention of that year - and was elected Representative-at-Large to Congress. There he helped to draft the Federal Budget Act. Meanwhile, his brother Robert, destined for politics, had turned to journalism and the Tribune...
Opium. The International Opium Conference adjourned its deliberations, began to study the draft of the Anti-Narcotics Convention, the monument which the Conference erected to its imperishable memory. The chief British delegate, Lord Cecil, returned to England...
...most important is a bill sponsored by Professor Manley O. Hudson L. '10 and O. R. Rice '25, together with officers of the American Legion, the Grand Army of the Republic, and other patriotic organizations. It provides for a petition to Congress to pass the so-called universal draft bill...