Word: americans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prime, lusty veterans of the Spanish-American war also encamped last week. They convened in Denver, Col., went on record as favoring greater pensions, elected for Commander-in-Chief Fred Warren Green, the Governor of Michigan who does not cash his pay checks (TIME, Sept...
First of the shipbuilders summoned was Clinton Lloyd Bardo, president of New York Shipbuilding Co. (subsidiary of American Brown Boveri) ; next Norman R. Parker, secretary and treasurer of American Brown Boveri Co.; then Charles M. Schwab, chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp.; then S. W. Wakeman, vice president of Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. No "tramps in purple and fine linen" are these, no "millionaires in rags...
...uncertainty of the American shipbuilding industry was such as to make it of the utmost importance that the company be advised of the trend of the shipbuilding as indicated by the Geneva Conference and not shown in the press reports...
...rumor that American shipbuilding interests had maintained at Geneva during the Naval Disarmament Conference of the previous summer a propagandist in the person of one William B. Shearer...
...hate pink, red and yellow; I think Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt were great Americans; I try to emulate the British in an American way. I like our flag as it is?I am a nationalist. I am referred to as a Naval expert, Naval authority, Naval critic, writer and lecturer? and other things that won't bear repeating. Enthusiasts claim I am the best posted man in the U. S. on national defense. I claim nothing and expect less; but whatever I represent, it is all American?which seems to arouse suspicion as well as curiosity...