Ratification Delay Haunts Postwar Policy Debates
Washington editors argue that U S ratification of the 1919 Versailles treaty would have sped recovery and reduced current political trouble. The piece links disarmament talks, League of Nations participation, and military policy shifts to the missed ratification, noting rapid weapon development and plans to integrate National Guard and reserve forces for future mobilization.
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Washington
United States
Senate
Bern
Owt
League of Nations
Council
United States Senate
Association of Patons
Europe
Ap Association of Nations
Becnme
Harding Iouslnietteaten
Wilson
Paria
Agig
Perts
Virginia Capes
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
Citizens’ Training Corps
Regular Army
National Guard
Organized Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
Organized Reserves
Nations Guard
Congress
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Citizens’ Training Camps
Resi Dent
Phrase Reflects Class Gap In Speech Among Rich And Poor
The quote contrasts a millionaire’s speech with a day laborer’s voice to show how social status shapes language. It highlights how wealth does not fix pronunciation or cadence and suggests enduring differences in everyday speech.
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Amarter
Nevada to Use Lethal Gas for Executions in New Penitentiary
Arnold Kruckmas reports from Carson City on Nevada lawmakers authorizing lethal gas executions, the planned gas chamber, and the state architect ordered to design the cell while witnesses observe. Gov. Emmett Boyle defends the method as painless and constitutional amid legal and ethical debate.
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Carson City
New
Nevada
Mircovich
Emmet D. Boyle
Emmett. Boyle
Etate
Union
Arnold Kruckmas
New York World
Governing treaties and distant powers in the Pacific
In a broad review of postwar diplomacy the text notes Allied decisions on German territories in Asia and the Pacific, United States reservations, and the contested mandates over Yap Caroline and Marshall Islands. It references Japan’s role and American naval bases in the western and central Pacific and the strategic hold on the Philippines via fleet presence in Hawaii and Guam.
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Shantung
Japan
United States Senate
China
Siberian
Irussian
Sakhalin
C—Yap
Calle Station Islet
Allied Supreme Council
Wilson
United States
Germany
Caroline and
Marshall Islands
Middle Pacific
freThe Phiippines
Far East
Pacific
Hawaii
Guam
New Gamnes
Australia
Samo
Islands
New Zealand
Wake Island
Lightning Photos Cedar Tree On Boy In Georgia
In Footman Georgia Travis Grimsley fifteen, struck by lightning while on a front porch swing. He carried a photograph of a cedar tree on his back and was knocked unconscious for several minutes before recovery. Jakie Burch fifteen, also struck, with a round hole burned in his cap and brief loss of consciousness.
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Travis
J. J. Grimsley
Jakie Burch
Dc Burch
Dentist visit with Raymond ends in funny billing note
Raymond recounts a dentist visit where the doctor said crying would cost a dollar and being good would cost fifty cents. He quips that he paid only fifty cents after not screaming, prompting his mother’s puzzled reply.
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Raymond
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