Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stupid people: "It is not easy for a European touching American shores to discern the pressure of a financial burden estimated by the President to exceed that of any other nation and to comprise 'half the entire wealth of the country at the time it entered the conflict...
...probable that our final cost [incurred due to the War] will run well toward $100,000,000,000, or half the entire wealth of the country when we entered the conflict. . . . We should like to have our Government debts all settled, although it is probable that we could better afford to lose them than our debtors could afford not to pay them...
...German statesmen similarly declared that their naval programs, before the War, were based on needs and were not competitive with our navy. . . . All the elements of an Anglo-American conflict are now present...
Then came the climax. Back in the U. S., the President suffered a collapse. The incessant conflict between ideals and adamant realities had begun shattering his nerves. Even Private Secretary Tumulty was denied access to the sick man. Minor crises arose. Spurred by certain Cabinet members, Mr. Lansing called informal conferences. In the distorted imagination of the invalid President this seemed usurpation of authority. The harried idealist, taut with mental anguish, was goaded by a final sense of frustration. He complained. Mr. Lansing resigned...
...milling crowd of several hundred quickly assembled around the Harvard speaker, V. R. Booth 21., who form his position of vantage in the back of an automobile witnessed the scenes of conflict for several minutes before missiles made him seek retirement...