Word: edith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What moved Baron von Bissing to this abhorrence of his fatherland? His friends declare that a partial cause was the judicial murder of a woman whose death was laid at the door of General von Bissing by Allied propaganda- Miss Edith Cayell. To erase that stigma from his family name was the futile hope and almost fanatical desire of the late Baron Walter von Bissing. The death of Miss Cavell has, of course, begun to seem less of a martyrdom to impartial neutrals as the facts have come to light...
Because General von Bissing, as Military Governor-General of Belgium, was technically responsible for the German court martial system of trying civilians, he was marked by Allied propagandists as "the murderer of Edith Cavell...
...Belgium for "recruiting" as opposed to "espionage." Within a few months Allied billboards were o'er-plastered with posters showing a brute-faced German officer commanding a phalanx of soldiers to fire upon a youthful, blooming defiant girl in the costume of a Red Cross nurse. The caption: EDITH CAVELL NEXT...
Engaged. Ludlow Griscom, grandson of a founder of the International Mercantile Marine Co.; to Edith Sloan, granddaughter of the late Samuel Sloan...
Michael Arlen will have his name on two plays, written in collabora- tion. Edith Ellis has dramatized his The Cavalier of the Streets and Winchell Smith has helped Mr. Arlen on a comedy called What Fun Frenchmen Have...