Word: franco-prussian
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...meeting in Washington which formed an American Red Cross Society, lobbied actively until the Senate had ratified the Geneva Convention which made the U. S. a member of the International Red Cross. This strong-willed little New England spinster had done relief work through the Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. For 23 years she was the energetic, arbitrary ruler of the American Red Cross. In 1904 a minority of its members attacked her dictatorship, forced an investigation of her poor business management, caused her, amid bitter recriminations, to resign. Last week President Hoover, his extremely distant Swiss relative...
...Franco-Prussian War," Professor Fay, Germanic Museum...
...which at first thought would seem to be a scholastic paradox. He is going to hear one of the most eminent workers for world peace analyze one of the most important wars of modern history. The speaker is Professor Sidney B. Fay, and the war in question is the Franco-Prussian of 1870. The War of 1870 was the starting point of Professor Fay's researches when he began his long and arduous quest for the real origins of the World War. That he has succeeded in untangling many of the intricate threads of diplomacy, as a result of these...
Shortly after the conclusion of the Franco-Prussian War (1871), 17-year-old Charles Leopold Hartmann left his native village of Nordheim, Alsace, and emigrated to the U. S. Of French sympathies, he did not wish to live in Alsace under German rule. At Hollister and Bakersfield, Calif, his affairs prospered so that he could make a trip back to his home town and see if he could find anyone who remembered him. Last month he set foot in Nordheim for the first time in 58 years, but everyone seemed to know who he was. Everybody he went to call...
Back in Kreuznach the old Feldmar-schall rallied quickly, drank of Rhenish wine from a gargantuan flagon which Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm I drained between them on their return from the Franco-Prussian...