Question of moral right in Shantung dispute stirs Senate debate
The Senate Committee of Foreign Relations demands amending the peace treaty to return Shantung to China, arguing a moral right. The piece notes wider implications for territories like the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and old conquests, and warns that circumstances alter application of moral claims.
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Lodge
Senate Committee of Foreign Relations
Japan
China
Senate
Europe
United States
Philippines
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Lristite
Ireland
Senate Committee
Spain
Vetself
Border Bandits for Hire The Border War Talk Revisited
A rhetorical pamphlet questions motives behind border tensions after a ransom settlement. It argues Americans with investments near the Rio Grande could seek war to justify annexation of northern Mexico, suggesting mercenary raids and a military cleanup to advance mining interests and prestige. The piece cites U S expansion history and warns against entangling alliances and moral cost.
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Mexico
Beetter
Rio Grande
United States
Jame Despoiler
Alrady
California
Arizona
New Mexico
Nevada
Utah
Colorado
Texas
Ibanez Praises America After Early Doubts
In a August Delineator piece Vicente Blasco Ibanez urges that the legend of the American bluff is buried. He says the United States saved Europe’s liberty and restored global justice while the world relies on America’s aid and leadership, a noble, generous people fulfilled its duty.
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America
Europe
Vicente Blasco Ibanez
United States
Housewives Appeal to President for Action on Prices
The National Housewives League urges the president to intervene as Congress stalls, arguing that high prices for wheat and corn hurt consumers while farmers need guarantees. They question Speaker Gillett’s reluctance and press for use of subsidies to aid the public. Congress is described as sullen and angry awaiting the president’s guidance.
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Congress
National Housewives League
Housewives League
Gillett
House
Two American Soldiers Pardoned After Death Sentence
Private Forest D. Sebastian of Illinois and Private Jeff Cook of Oklahoma were sentenced to death for sleeping on outpost duty in France in 1918. President Wilson pardoned them, and both later served with distinction in the Aisne and Meuse-Argonne offensives, where they were wounded, showcasing reforms to the long-standing court martial system.
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Forest D. Sebastian
Illinois
Jeff Cook
Oklahoma
France
Wil
Sebastian
Conan
Aisne
Cook
Great Britain
Reasons for Ratification Cited by Wilson at White House Speech
President Wilson urged speedy ratification of the treaty in a Foreign Relations committee briefing at the White House. He argued that copper mines in Arizona Montana and Alaska are operating at a loss and zinc mines in Missouri Tennessee and Wisconsin are producing at half capacity. He noted Missouri Idaho and Illinois markets are restricted and cotton sales to central empires and Europe are blocked until trade resumes. Nations making peace first will gain prosperity first.
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Foreign Relations Committee
White House
Wilson
Arizona
Montama
Alaska
Missouri
Tennessee
Wisconsin
Idalhs
Illinois
Europe
Around Rim Flight Resumed By Harts
Lieutenant ColonelKR8 Harts a United States army aviator resumed his flight around the United States after a crash near Keeney in the Adirondacks. He began the leg from Keeney Plattaburg heading Cleveland and was held by adverse conditions until today.
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Plattsbung
Auk
Harts
United States Army
Keeney
Adirondacks
Ae States
Cleveland
Keeney Plattaburg
Cheyenne Girls Enter University of Nebraska Fall
Miss Francesa Irwin and Miss Josephine Mullen head to the University of Nebraska this fall as part of Cheyenne girls entering college.
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Francesa Irwin
Josephinne Mullen
University of Nebraska
Grain shipments cur tailed but no embargo reported
New York Aug 29 officials of the United States Grain corporation announced that shipments to Atlantic and Gulf ports are temporarily suspended due to a shortage of vessel tonnage and overcrowing of storage facilities. The suspension is an ordinary central movement and no embargo is posed or contemplated. Leona Manchester of Sterling Colorado is here on a brief visit.
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New York
Atlantic
Gulf Ports
Cilities
United States Grain Corporation
Leona Manchester
Sterling, Colo
Senator Fall Faces Daylight Saving Debate and Strike Fallout
The senator warns that the League of Nations will not resolve daylight saving, the actors' strike, or domestic political corruption. He asserts the nation must act to reform the same old methods without external help.
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Seinsatz
Senator Fall
League of Nations
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