Word: lusitania
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nonpartisanship was almost a mania with General Manager Stone. If he had political opinions, no one else in the Associated Press knew them. When his son Herbert went down with the German-torpedoed Lusitania, he insisted on A. P. neutrality...
...France never cut off the hand or hands of a single child; 2) That Allied propagandists created and attributed to Wilhelm II the reference to "England's contemptible little army" which became the most effective British recruiting slogan of the entire War; 3) That the sinking of the Lusitania was justified by the fact that she carried arms; 4) That German submarine commanders did not in any instance aggravate their torpedoing of merchant ships by an "atrocity" or act of cruelty; and 5) That the portion of the ... Treaty of Versailles which fixes sole War guilt upon Germany is simply...
...Lusitania Armed. Britain's present Chancellor of the Exchequer, rubicund and Right Honorable Winston ("Winnie") Churchill, is quoted as stating over his signature...
...Included in her [the Lusitania's] cargo was a small consignment of rifle ammunition and shrapnel shells weighing about 173 tons...
...Atlantic Monthly poet, socially prominent jokesmith, son of Rev. William Greenough Thayer, headmaster of St. Mark's School, Southboro, Mass.; to Mrs. Emily Davies Vanderbilt of Manhattan, who last June, in six minutes, divorced William Henry Vanderbilt, son of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt who perished on the Lusitania; in Manhattan. In 1921 Mr. Thayer was in Paris. It is related that he, poor, got to Europe by traveling steerage with a silk hat and no ticket...