Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan was estimated at $2,900,000,000 or about one-sixth of the present national debt. In advocating the new program, which was transmitted by Secretary Wilbur to Speaker Longworth of the House and thence to the Naval Affairs Committee, President Coolidge assured questioners that it did not conflict with the economy program of his Administration. Four new battleships, costing some $148,000,000, were omitted from the Wilbur list, though building up the U. S. Fleet to a strength permitted under the limitation treaty of 1923 with Britain and Japan was the obvious purpose of the program...
...post-war" theory, derived less from life than from fiction which showed the undergraduate wallowing drunkenly in the backwash of the late conflict, finds in him no protagonist. Neither is he of a mind with octogenarians who state in birthday interviews that the present generation ushers in the dawn of a new and marvelous day. He says merely that "intellectually and socially, we have not yet caught up with our own inventions and discoveries;" and belives that, all things considered, the "matter-of-fact acceptance" of the new world by the undergraduate promises well...
...Morrow, rising to a toast, said something in English which was apparently not understood. Mr. Rogers then quoted Mr. Morrow in Spanish as having said: "... how could the United States ever enter into armed conflict with people like these? ..." Amid shouted cheers President Calles sprang up and clasped the Ambassador's hand. Later Mr. Morrow said to U. S. correspondents: "All this is very interesting...
...conscious of this change, and his realization causes a conflict within him which comes to a crisis when Henri, the son, returns. Ambition proves the stronger, and he asks Henri to live under an assumed name, that the hero legend may survive and that he, Bachelet, may remain a minister of France. Henri accepts the situation France. Henri accepts the situation with the bitter resolve that having returned from the hell of war into a world of swine, he will himself fight and grasp and be a greater swine than all of them. It is a strong play, conviucingly acted...
After completing his legal studies he entered the diplomatic corps, being stationed at Washington and Petrograd before the War. During the conflict he was attached to the Chancellor's office and in 1920 he was appointed consul at Trieste. In the following year he was made Counselor of the Embassy at Rome, a post that he has held ever since...