THE GENTLEMAN FROM MASSACHUSETTS: HENRY CABOT LODGE. [First Edn.]

by Schriftgiesser, Karl

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Boston:: Little Brown,, 1944. Hardcover; cover tips bumped; front cover lower corner very bumped; otherwise good.. + bibliography + index. Lodge (1850-1924), staunch Republican U.S. Congressman & Senator, represented Massachusetts for 37 years, helped draft Sherman Anti-Trust, & Pure Foods & Drugs laws; approved acquiring the Philippines; abetted Teddy Roosevelt's scheme in Panama for a Canal. ||| As Chair, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he favored harsh WW-1 peace terms for--& heavy financial indemnities levied against--Germany, later cited as contributing causes to rise of Hitler, Nazis, & subsequent WW-2. Lodge also led the fight against Wilson's plan for U.S. membership in the League of Nations.