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...Swanson reservations, five in number. They were adopted by large majorities. On the final day the opponents of the Court presented their reservations. Many of these proposed almost impossible conditions, conditions very likely to prevent the nations which have adhered to the Court from accepting our offer to join them???such reservations as that the war fleets of the world be abolished and an International Police of the Seas be established before we join, or that the Court be completely reorganized and given a new constitution. The resolutions of the opposition were voted down?no more than 22 votes could...
...Canada and Newfoundland, together with the inscription, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." On the other side is stamped a likeness of famed philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. The discs are the Carnegie Hero Medals. Last week one of them???a silver one?was awarded to Edda Mussolini, able swimmer, rescuer of an unknown woman from drowning (TIME, Aug 17), young daughter of famed Benito Mussolini...
...Follette is dead, Gompers is dead. They may have differed in many matters, but if they were all living they would unite in their opposition, to this bill. . . . And now may I mention the names of some other leaders on this side? You will recognize them as I mention them??? Clark, DeArmond, James, Kitchin, Padgett, Moon, Flood, who died, all of them, at their posts of duty, fighting, all of them, during their lives, and their deaths seem untimely against the principles for which you gentlemen stand. Oh, other leaders will rise. These puny and little leaders who control...
...insuring peace in the area which has so frequently been the scene of European conflicts; animated also with the sincere desire of giving to all the signatory powers concerned supplementary guarantees within the framework of the Covenant of the League of Nations and the treaties in force between them???have determined to conclude a treaty with these objects and have appointed plenipotentiaries, who, having communicated their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed as follows...
...platform at Norwich, Conn. Next morning at 8:00 a. m. the little train pulled into the station at Salem, Mass. A crowd was waiting. The President and Mrs. Coolidge, "his gracious spouse," as a Washington newspaper described her, appeared on the rear platform. Several office-seekers hurried to them???Senator William M. Butler, who will have to face the Massachusetts electorate against onetime (1919-25) Senator David I. Walsh next year, and Mrs. John Jacob Rogers, widow of the late representative, who is candidate to succeed her husband against former Governor Noble Foss of Massachusetts. There also was Frank...