Word: peppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ball, Dela. Borah, Ida. Cameron, Ariz. Edge, N. J. Ernst, Ky. Fernald, Me. Grene, Vt. Keyes, N. H. McKinley, 111. Moses, N. H. Pepper, Pa. Phipps, Colo. Reed, Pa. Smoot, Utah Sterling, S. D. Wadsworth, N. Y. Warren, Wyo. Weller, Md. Howell...
...when the National Committee met last week, opposition to carrying out the plan of reducing the South's delegations at once developed. Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania proposed an alternative, on the ground that it was unjust to deprive Southern districts of any direct representation in the Convention. Senator Howell of Nebraska and Senator Bursum of New Mexico made a stand against annulment of the reform-to no avail. Without a roll call the South was restored its full delegate strength-and a little bit more- and to offset the latter other States were also given increased representation...
...These men were usually thrown into Leavenworth penitentiary without trial by jury, usually on the basis of the sedition laws alone and often because the man was simply a member of the International Workers of the World organization. Senator George W. Pepper of Pennsylvania, who is certainly no radical on the subject and who has investigated the several causes for these men be placed under arrest, has stated that he could find no legal justification of their apprehension...
Senator George Wharton Pepper is one of 50 Pennsylvanian laymen of the Episcopal Church who have documented themselves as endorsing the Apostles' and Nicene creeds. Their action is directed against spiritual radicals who, say they, "disseminate doctrines which tend to unsettle the minds of some of our people...
...many, George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania appears to be the most able lawyer in the Senate. Mr. Pepper has been one of the most noted practitioners at the Philadelphia Bar. He served as Algernon Sydney Biddle Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania from 1893 till 1910. In 1915 he was the Lyman Beecher Lecturer at Yale. His appellate arguments are surpassed by those of nobody at the entire American Bar. He is in a class with men like John W. Davis, Louis Marshall, William D. Guthrie. He brings to the Senate, in addition to a profound knowledge...