Word: idea
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Islands. From Manhattan last week went 1,200 U. S. citizens, bound for the Citizens' Military Training Camp at Plattsburg, N. Y. Had General Wood visited the station to watch their departure, these citizen-soldiers might well have saluted him. For he is the father of the Plattsburg Idea; it is the result of his work that 53 Plattsburg-like camps will this summer give military training to some...
...when General Wood was Chief of Staff, that he first conceived the training camp idea. At that time the world was at peace, the U. S. Regular Army had dropped to some 25,000 men. The first two camps (one at Monterey, Calif., the other at Gettysburg, had a combined enrollment of 222 men, all college students. In 1914 there were 667 enrollments in four camps; in 1915 the number reached 1,066. In 1915 General Wood opened the Plattsburg Camp and extended the idea to include not only college boys but also businessmen. Plattsburg quickly became the centre...
...estimated that two-thirds of the line officers in the U. S. World War forces received their training through the Plattsburg Idea...
What is this Companionate Marriage idea which has made Judge Lindsey almost a symbol of evil in many U. S. minds? Briefly, it is based on the fact that some marriages are entered into with the expectation of the wife's bearing children, that other marriages are entered into with no such expectation. Why not, urges Judge Lindsey, recognize the childless marriage as a different but legal form of union? Let a boy and a girl who wish to marry, but who cannot well afford to have children, marry and, with the aid of widespread birth-control knowledge, take...
During Charles Evans Hughes' term as Secretary of State there was a movement to take the Islands out of War Department jurisdiction and turn them over to the State Department. Secretary Hughes expressed no eagerness for the additional responsibility, and the idea was finally dropped. Last fortnight when General Wood called on the President at Custer Park (TIME, July 4) the transfer scheme was presumably revived, and shortly following the conference the President made his transfer suggestion...