Delaware Legislature Postpones Suffrage Vote
The Delaware Senate and House adjourned to next Monday as ratification of the woman suffrage amendment remains doubtful. Republican leaders push for an immediate House vote next week with a likely roll call on adoption, though a decisive result may come Wednesday. Suffragists welcome the brief pause and expect a tighter vote.
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Pay Too Small to Send Girl to School
Guy Dixon, 38, of 11 Corbet Street, arraigned in Dorchester Court after his daughter Marion failed to attend school. He said $24 a week cannot support a wife and six children, keeping her home for footwear. Judge Churchill imposed and suspended a $2 fine. Hats for debutantes are simpler than for older women.
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Corbet Street
Dorchester Court
Marion
Churchill
Chile Told by U S to Avert War
Washington official summary of the American note to Chile on anti Peruvi an disturbances in Bolivia and Chilean reply notes the U S urged Chile to do all it can to prevent hostilities on the west coast of South America. The Mercurio newspaper criticized the note and the American Chamber of Commerce in Valparaiso called it grossly erroneous.
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Washington
Chile
Bolivia
State Department
Chili
South America
Mercurio
Peru
American Chamber of Commerce
Valparaiso
Joseph H. Shea
Liberal leadership dispute between Lloyd George and Asquith
In London on March 26 Premier Lloyd George and former premier Herbert H. Asquith discuss the likely Liberal party leadership. The debate touches on who will dominate the National Liberal Club, the party’s headquarters.
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London
Lloyd George
Herbert H. Asquith
House of Commons
Paisley
Liberal Party
National Liberal Club
Four Men Steal Doctor's Car From Exeter Street Theatre
Dr Maude Warren of Waltham watched as four well dressed men unlocked her auto with a false key and drove away from Exeter Street Theatre. She had just exited the building with a female friend when the thieves sped off before alarm could be raised.
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Maude Warren
Waltham
Exeter Street
Lawson Divorce Case to Open Next Monday
The divorce fight between Arnold Lawson and Lucie Mitchell Lawson will begin next Monday in the Suffolk County Superior Court equity session. Both parties will appear to seek custody of their four children amid unusual character indications.
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Arnold Lawson
Thomas W. Lawson
Lucie Mitchell Lawson
Suffolk County Superior Court
Lloyd George Attacks Labor Policy as Communist in Tone
Premier Lloyd George defended his attack on the Labor party and warned against its program of ending capitalism to build a cooperative commonwealth. He labeled Labor leaders as intellectuals behind a revolutionary agenda and urged the nation to beware such doctrines amid tense political times.
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Asquith
Lloyd George
Labor Party
Clynes
John Robert Clynes
The
Laborite
Henderson
Arthur Henderson
Navy kept below par by Daniels
Two naval officers testified before the Senate investigating committee that for two years before the war entry Secretary Daniels refused to approve a manpower increase and the Navy Department tried to suppress reports of a shortage.
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Washington
C. Pp. Plunkett
J. K. Taussig
Senate
United States
Daniels
Navy Department
Navy officers recount WWI fleet personnel struggles and decisions
Admiral Plunkett and Captain Taussig reflect on personnel shortages and gunnery issues that hampered the Atlantic fleet. They cite Secretary Daniels' personnel policy, Dewey’s board recommendation rejected, and note morale at the 1917 April fleet status. They compare German gunnery to British reactions at Jutland.
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Captain Taussig
Atlantic Fleet
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Taussig
Navy Department
Admiral Dewey
General Board
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Germany
Jutland
H. T. Mayo
A. W. Grant
Atlantic
Canadian Vets Seek Deportation of Enemy Aliens
In a convention resolution the Great War Veterans' Associations urge deportation of Germans Austrians Bulgarians and Turks who cannot be assimilated as Canadian citizens It proposes a year to dispose of property for disenfranchised aliens and court examination of all naturalized or unnaturalized persons to assess citizen desirability.
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Montreal
Great War Veterans’ Associations
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