Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hero Peat, 35, lecturer and anti-war propagandist, was born in Kingston, Jamaica, naturalized a U. S. citizen in 1922. In the War he served as a private (1914-1917), 3rd Battalion, 1st Canadian Infantry, was gassed once, wounded twice, left on the battlefield 56 hours. His medals...
...gasped with surprise at the sight of a trim new regiment marching briskly and in close order out of the hard-harried Republican redoubts. From the sidelines few were the faces recognized in this detachment of fresh troops as it deployed and in one bold stroke captured the tariff battlefield under sharp Democratic fire...
...white flag was run up over the Republican ramparts on the tariff battlefield in the Senate last week, but the Democratic and Progressive Republican warriors, their honor stung by vile names hurled at them across the trenches, refused to cease firing...
...Voice from the White House had hardly died away, before the Senate battlefield rang with a new and deafening clamor. Again stacking their arms. Senate warriors fell to loud and disputatious shouting as to the responsibilities for tariff delays. Two weeks had been spent on the first of 15 separate rate schedules in the bill. All were agreed upon the impossibility of complying with the Olympian command that the measure be disposed of in the same length of time...
...From the battlefield departed Republican Chief of Staff Watson of Indiana, worn to a frazzle by the tariff fray. His physician had ordered a three-week "rest" in Florida. Gossipers spoke of the failure of his leadership, predicted that Brigadier Charles McNary of Oregon would soon be advanced to Chief of Staff. So feeble became the tariff fighting that Democratic Chief of Staff Robinson also went off, for a fortnight's holiday in Arkansas. Combat came to a farcical standstill on Saturday when brigadier generals deserted wholesale. General Edge went to New Jersey, preventing action on his earthenware schedules...