Word: bryan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...dreamers enlisted in this cause have put forth many impractical theories and proposals. This does not affect the maintenance of a sane and temperate attitude in the question of armament increase. A sharp contrast between the two types of pacifist has just been furnished by the resignation of Mr. Bryan, due to his disagreement with President Wilson. The President's policy, never that of non-resistance, has been such as to inspire the confidence and support of the whole country...
...Honor, and editor of "Le Matin," Paris, will deliver a lecture on "The Spirit of France Today" in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 8 o'clock. M. LeRoux is now engaged as special envoy from the French secretary of foreign affairs to President Wilson and Secretary Bryan. At the same time he is endeavoring to arouse sentiment for the French in this country...
...known French author, explorer, officer in the Paris "Matin," will lecture in the Union on "Le Francais d'aujourd 'hui," or "L'Etat d'ame de la France," next Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. LeRoux is now engaged on a special mission to President Wilson and Secretary Bryan from the French secretary of foreign affairs. He made many explorations in Africa; discovered a new tribe in Abyssinia, and organized the first French camel-corps on the desert of Sahara. He has been active in the promotion of boys' sports in France, and has produced many books...
...only place in the Government service today where college opinion and college men are regarded as a joke is in the Department of State. Mr. Bryan has driven J. B. Moore, a world authority on international law, from the post of counselor back to his chair at Columbia University. He has dismissed from the diplomatic service, after thirty years brilliant work, W. W. Rockhill, a college graduate whom the Chinese government is now seeking to employ as its chief adviser. In the place of a college man as First Assistant Secretary of State, Mr. Bryan has substituted a Wyoming apothecary...
...delegates from about 800 institutions attended the meeting. The chairman of the convention was Dr. John R. Mott, and among the speakers were Samuel M. Zwemer, of Cairo, Egypt; Robert E. Speer, of New York; G. S. Eddy, of the International Young Men's Christian Association; and William Jennings Bryan...