Word: happens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week in Detroit, speakers remembered how badly they had been treated in 1898. Governor of Michigan Fred W. Green† said, "Never did an Army leader take the field with such poor equipment and such poor food as America in the days of '98. The same thing would happen if we went to war now. . . ." Major General Charles P. Summerall, Chief of Staff, protested: "The 1920 National Defense Act is ... developing excellently. ... It is what the title proclaims, an Act designed to procure adequate peacetime military establishment. . . ." Miss Jennie R. Dix, president of the Spanish War Nurses made...
...average of two babies a week, in all 6,582. Thirty-six years ago, they added, Mme. Gomo was awarded the Prix de Vertu of the French Academy. She is nearing 80 years of age and is soon to retire, they concluded with an air of "what is to happen to our future babies...
Seeing your letter in TIME, replying to (not answering) that of Kingsley Leeds, about the Boy Scouts, I cannot refrain from saying that if you should happen to meet "little Leeds" as you call him, you would do well to speak to him respectfully. I happen to know "little Leeds" who is quite a youthful Hercules though good tempered. He might spank you and send you home. Truly yours...
...last week met the National Medical Association for its 32nd annual convention. It is the national organization of Negro physicians, surgeons, dentists and pharmacists. All Negro professional men do not belong to it; some hold aloof from racial associations. But most do belong, and to them, especially those who happen to trip against the bars of local sub-organizations of the American Medical Association, the National Medical Association is an invaluable agency of professional culture and public health...
While waiting for this to happen no gentleman will omit a few modest, customary intimations that the number of birds which he slew last year on such-and-such a moor was really colossal...