The New Tariff Bill Faces GOP Dispute and Debate
The article notes sharp Republican unity on tariff aims but broad disagreement on rates. It discusses lumber and petroleum duties, wartime market distortions, and the need for compromise. It highlights executive rate flexibility, bartering tariffs, and hopes Congress, with the President, will craft a law benefiting industry and federal revenue.
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Republican Party
Congress
United States
House Ways and Means Committee
Ways and Means Committee
Harding
Canada
Mexico
America
House
Senate
Executive
Albania's Future and the question of its government
The article surveys Albania's post Rapallo era borders and aims, noting its mixed population and historic fragmentation. It questions if a small, tribally divided, mountainous society with few industries can sustain a stable independent state amid regional disarray and religious strife. The piece contrasts Albanian aims with practical governance challenges.
Peace Resolution Nears Final Victory in War With Germany
The article notes the House and Senate resolving their dispute on the peace declaration with Germany and Austro-Hungary. It states this paves the way for resumed business relations, aiding readjustment of industry and commerce, with reservations to protect U S claims and assets. It emphasizes the significance over procedural form and cites Republican pledges and Harding’s stance. The alien property custodian will retain funds until claims are settled.
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Montenegro
Nicholas
Adriatic
Albania
Macedonia
Epirus
Serbia
Greece
Bulgaia
Uskub
Monastir
Pristina
Janina
House
Senate
United States
Germany
Austro-Hungary
America
Harding
Congress
Collapse of British coal strike reshapes labor alliance
The end of the 89 day strike marks a severe defeat for organized labor in Britain. It removes the triple alliance’s potential power, ends the national wage pool aim, and enforces pay reductions while introducing a 15 month trial of profit sharing and a Parliament subsidy of 10 million pounds to ease wage cuts.
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Railwaymens Union
Transport Workers Union
Great Britain
Americanism and Great Airship News Across Papers
A discussion of true Americanism contrasts with Europeanism and government overreach. The London and New York papers report the B-38 airship's first tests under the English ministry, its potential naval use, and cross Atlantic plans.
Greek statutes deny titles of nobility in Greece
The Greek constitution abolishes and prohibits noble titles with penalties. It states only basileus and diadokos have legal authority, while other royal titles are courtesy. The claim that King Constantine offered a Greek noble title to William B. Leeds is false. Foreign titles exist but hold no legal standing in Greece.
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Atlantic
Constantine
William B. Leeds
Xenia Romanoff
George
Russia
Leeds
Greece
Roumania
Serbia
Basileus
Diadokos
Former crown prince turns to farrier on Dutch island
The ex-crown prince, interned on Wieringen since 1918, forges horseshoes with a local blacksmith, receives autographed wooden tokens from his father, and endures austere finances while maintaining health amid island life. His sons study in Potsdam as he remains estranged from Kaiser Wilhelm II and reconciliations with family are limited.
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Doorn
Crown Prince
Wieringen
Maj
von Muldner
Hohenzollern
Brunswick
Karl Rosner
Hohenzollerns
Countess Keller
Potsdam
Prolonged Congress sessions on tariffs and nominations
Proceedings cover House and Senate actions with a 38 to 26 vote on the Calder bill sending coal freight rates back to committee. Maternity and infancy bill unfinished business. Nominations confirmed include McWhinney for Treasury solicitor and Todd for US attorney. Ambassadors named to Japan and Chile. Militia chief confirmed. steps toward a Bank of Nations proposal and port of New York authority. House actions on naval base land dispute and aircraft carriers.
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Calder
Reed
Robert J. McWhinney
Pennsylvania
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Treasury
Hiram C. Todd
New York
United States
Charles B. Warren
Michigan
Japan
William M. Collier
Chile
Parker Gilbert, Jr
J. Raymond McCarl
Blakely D. McCaughn
Philadelphia
David W. Phillips
Scranton
Daniel B. Heiner
Kittanning
Twenty
George C. Rickards
Pennsylvania National Guard
Militia Bureau
War Department
Bank of Nations
Hitchcock
Port of
Hadwen
Judiciary Committee
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Mondell
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King County
Wash
Sand Point
Ways and Means Committee
Fordney
District of Columbia Committee
Zihlman
Ninth Street
Longfellow Street
Underwood Street
Georgia Avenue
Japan urges policy shaped by public opinion
Japanese parliamentary delegate R Nakanishi told a dinner of Congress members that Japan now bases foreign policy on public opinion. He noted postwar interest in world affairs and said rural voters want international discussions, praising the cordial reception by the U S Congress and its impact on Japanese perception.
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R. Nakanishi
Congress
Orient
Hughes
Baron Shidehara
Porter
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Mr. Nakanishi
Bryce Extols Americans at Watson Chair Ceremony
Viscount Bryce, former British Ambassador, inaugurates the Sir George Watson chair of American history at the Mansion House in London. He calls the U S Constitution the greatest single contribution to government as an applied science and urges better understanding between Britain and the United States. The Watson chair, first serious English effort to teach American history, will lecture in various colleges and not attach to a single university.
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London
Associated Press
Viscount Bryce
Washington
George Watson
Mansion House
United States
Watson Foundation
Watson
England
Oxford University
Monument to James Orton Planned for Titicaca Grave
Speakers at the Willard describe plans to honor explorer James Orton, buried on a Titicaca island. A pink granite monument, 9 feet high with Inca styling, will mark the grave at Esteves coast near Lah Titicaca. Memorial services set for September 23, with Peruvian officials and regional attendees.
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James Orton
Smithsonian Institution
Charles
Southinton
Boston
Willard
South America
Lake Titicnea
Orton
Mollendo
Peru
Puno
Arquipa
la Paz
Bolivia
Vassar College
New Hampshire
Esteves
Lah
Titicaca
America
Nation of early United States praised as well behaved
A Detroit preacher cites a survey by Rev Thomas J Villers to claim Americans are improving and mostly God-fearing and home-loving, countering views of a wicked world. He recalls youth drumming eras and notes Prohibition and stricter social norms, arguing the nation has settled down.
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United States
Committee On Evangelism
Batist Church
Thomas J Villers
Detroit
America
Willar
Ferguson
Grand Rapids
Washington
el Paso
New Oleans
New York
Seattle
San Francisco
Ilulieva
Detroi
Althou
Serb Constitution Adopted by Constituent Assembly
A Belgrade cable to the Legation reports the Serbs Croats and Slovenes constituent assembly voting 223 to 35 to adopt the constitution. The prince regent allegedly took oath under the new charter, and Belgrade marked the vote with an enthusiastic patriotic demonstration.
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Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Belgrade
Tittoni to sail for U S with king's letter
Rome today reported that Tomasso Tittoni president of the Italian senate will sail on the Dante Alighieri July 20 with an autographed letter from King Victor Emmanuel to President Harding. He will give a course of lectures at Williams College Institute of Politics.
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Tomasso Tittoni
Senate
United States
Dante Alighieri
Victor Emmanuel
Harding
Signor Titton
Institute of Politics
Williams College
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