Word: crosse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge, past President, attended the first luncheon of the season given by the Senate Ladies-organized during the War for Red Cross work by Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall. The Presidents of the Club in order have been Mrs. Marshall, Mrs. Coolidge, Mrs. Dawes...
General Laidoner began by recalling that the Turks had refused his commission access to the region on the Turkish side of the Mosul frontier. He then went on to say that the commissioners had cross- examined refugees from this region before there was any possibility of their having been tampered with by British agents. In conclusion he expressed absolute certainty as to the material fact that the Turks have been deporting the non-Moslem inhabitants of this region with frightful barbarity...
...Calvin Coolidge, President of the American Red Cross, addressed the annual meeting of that organization in Washington...
...Those who conceived the broadened scope of the Red Cross and those who have brought the work to its present state of efficiency quite properly, I believe, should receive no small share of credit for the extension of the nation's beneficence in so many fields of endeavor...
...against the War and Navy Departments proceeded for another week, the prosecution presenting rebuttal witnesses. One of them, R. G. Rath of Los Angeles, former Captain in the Air Service and decorated for bravery, drew hisses upon Colonel Mitchell's lawyer, Congressman Frank R. Reid. Rath declared in cross examination that anti-aircraft fire was effective; that Colonel Mitchell (then General) had during the War ordered flights under extremely adverse conditions; once had sent five flyers not experienced in night flying out on a mission which brought them home after dark, so that all five crashed in landing...