Word: f
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Welcome. A year ago, General Pershing, Marshall Foch and many another highest endorser of American Legion's proposed reunion in Paris on the tenth anniversary of the A. E. F.'s appearance on French soil, seriously doubted the wisdom of turning 15,000 Americans loose in a country where Americans had become distinctly unpopular. Was that unpopularity wholly erased -by the stabilization of the French franc, the debt negotiations, the visit of Heroes Lindbergh, Chamberlin and Byrd...
Plans. While the legion's van guard went out to show its wives its old battlefields, its comrades' graves, planning went ahead for the parade, on Sept. 19, of 15,000 legionaries and 15,000 Frenchmen behind one-armed General Gouraud, onetime commandant of the A. E. F. now military governor of Paris...
...Episcopal rector who was made a missionary bishop and sent to the Philippines because of his earnest simplicity, rugged strength and adaptability among people of other races, it was Bishop Brent who confirmed General Pershing in the Philippines and subsequently became Chaplain-in-Chief of the A. E. F...
Near Jerusalem, Professor William F. Bade of an expedition sent by the Pacific School of Religion to unearth Biblical Mizpah, pressed his work and returned home last fortnight. Mizpah was used by the Israelites as a fortress and capital during the Babylonian invasion. Its walls were 16 feet to 25 feet thick. Stratified ruins revealed civilizations stretching back from 500 to 3000 B. C. In a 7th Century B. C. cellar were found wine jars and a statue of the Egyptian...
Thwarted thus far has been Leonor F. Loree's project of a fifth system in the same region (Wabash, Wheeling & Lake Erie, Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh, Delaware & Hudson, Lehigh Valley, Western Maryland...