Word: insurrectionism
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Between 1919 and 1929, pensions to World War I veterans and their survivors increased by 866%. Veterans of the Spanish-American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Philippine Insurrection, World Wars I & II can collect as high as $250 a month. A veteran disabled in peacetime (while still a member of...
Died. Harold Norman Denny, 56, able, longtime roving correspondent for the New York Times in five wars (Morocco, 1926; Nicaragua, 1928; Ethiopia, 1935; Finland. 1939; World War II) and one insurrection (Cuba, 1930), who earned a diplomatic protest from Russia by his candid coverage of the 1936-38 Soviet treason...
In (but not of) the British Empire, oil-rich, rubber-rich Sarawak is an in dependent patch on the northwest rim of Dutch Borneo. Britain's control stops at defense and foreign affairs. For a century Sarawak was the absolute domain of the Brooke dynasty, founded in 1841, when...
He saw the seas of the Far East during the Philippine Insurrection and the Boxer Rebellion. He read "Mahan's classic on sea power. During World War I he commanded a troopship carrying U.S. soldiers to France. He also met and gave some occasional friendly counsel to the young...
Through the Paris censorship trickled news of a bloody insurrection in Algeria. Since May 8, fierce Kabyle tribesmen* had stabbed or beaten to death a hundred French officials and wealthy colons (landowners who exploit native farm labor) in the mountainous district of Little Kabylia. The Europeans had picked up their...