Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Empire can afford to provide material for the dastardly campaign of the Hearst organs or forget that the soldiers of the United States, of Great Britain and of Canada were comrades in arms in the Armageddon of the ages. If they could die together, surely we can live together in amity, in mutual respect, in common endeavor to make the world safer and happier for the generations of the future. "Wild tongues which have not Thee in awe" are the devil's advocates for the "lesser breeds without the law." In the British nations there is neither lust...
During the war he served as a Lieutenant Colonel of the 26th United States Infantry, one of the first divisions of the A. E. F. in France. He took part in several of the major engagements of the American campaign, among them the battles of Cantigny and Soissons, and in the Argonne and St. Mihiel offensives. He was wounded, and because of his distinguished service he was decorated with the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre by the French Government...
...latest development of this struggle between people and Administration came when Secretary Baker, ignoring Congress's appropriation for 1920-21 of just enough money to provide for an army of 175,000 men, started a countrywide recruiting campaign, and by increasing the army well beyond the appropriation limit, incurred a forty-million dollar deficit. The two houses, seeing what was happening, attempted to hold him in restraint by passing the resolution for-bidding recruiting. The President, faithful to the last, supported his theory and his Secretary by his veto. If the Administration cannot go out "in a blaze of glory...
...CRIMSON. "We naturally are human and fallible and since the people of North Dakota are human and fallible they have drifted away from the movement. There have been several egregious blunders, perhaps the worst of which was the appointment of a very unpopular man defeated in his campaign for election as School Superintendent, to the State Board of Education. There too have been all kinds of irrelevant charges of atheism, of Bolshevis, of free love, and the like, levelled at us, and this has had its effect. Finally we have had to increase taxes in order...
This is part of a nation-wide campaign to be made among Dartmouth alumni for $360,000 for the construction of an athletic field, as a memorial to Dartmouth's war heroes. The new field will include two football gridirons, three baseball diamonds, three hockey rinks, eleven tennis courts, and a concrete grandstand...