Word: peppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Pepper obliged the Republican irreconcilables by propounding a scheme for U. S. entry into the Permanent Court of International Justice according to their tastes (TIME, June 2). His schemes involved making 16 Amendments to the statute by which the League of Nations founded the Court. These were in addition to a group of reservations similar to those proposed by President Harding when he advocated entering the Court. Mr. Pepper asserted that President Coolidge would approve the new proposal...
...astute Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, thoroughgoing Democrat, has no use for diluted World Courts. Accordingly when Senator Lodge and his Republican colleagues on the Foreign Relations Committee reported a proposal by Senator Pepper for a much amended and reservationed World Court, Mr. Glass explained: "If I were disposed to treat such grave matters with levity, I would say that Senator Lodge had changed his tactics-heretofore he has been throwing sand in the eyes of the people, while now he is throwing Pepper...
...Pepper's proposal, in the form of a resolution, also suggested that the President call a third Hague conference to clarify and codify international law. Thus is the child complete which the Republicans are expected to take before the electorate, exclaiming: "Look at our handsome offspring...
...When the Pepper proposal came up in the Foreign Relations Committee, the Republicans promptly fell in line and reported it out?in preference to the proposal made by President Harding for entering the World Court simply with reservations?in preference to the Lodge plan for a new World Court. The vote was 10 to 6, but some of those voting on the affirmative, merely wished to bring the question before the Senate...
...Pepper child...