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On 15 January 1929 Sen. John J. B laine of Wisconsin, a progressive Republican, cast the only dissenting vote against the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as a national policy. Blaine argued, "This pact commits our Nation to an impossible peace, unworthy of the traditions of America, and forgetful of that which made this Republic possible."

On 19 July 1928 Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, pledged at the Southern Dry Democratic Conference in Asheville, North Carolina, to vote against and work against his party's presidential nominee, Alfred E. Smith, who took a "wet" stance on Prohibition.

On 28 March 1924 Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, who had been indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government, resigned at President Coolidge's request.

On 14 June 1929 former vice president Charles G. Dawes arrived in London to begin his new position...

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