Word: lusitania
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...submarines, by their most recent torpedoings, have given the people of this country some tangible alibi for urging Congress to scrap the Neutrality Act. The sudden outcry of "out-rage" and "dastardly rattlesnake" must be reminiscent, to those who lived through it, of the last war and the Lusitania...
More notoriety than fame accrued to George Viereck during World War I. After the sinking of the Lusitania by a U-boat, Viereck wrote: "The facts in the case absolutely justify the action of the Germans. Legally and morally there is no basis for any protest on the part...
...after the sinking of the Lusitania, the word "preparedness" took hold. President Woodrow Wilson declared for a U.S. Navy second to none. Congress began to appropriate big sums for national defense; finally, in August 1916, set up a body called the Council of National Defense, a group composed of six Cabinet officers, gave them a $200,000 appropriation. This bill was debated for six full months...
...Manhattan. "Uncle Dan," who first made himself useful as the 15-year-old New York Tribune copy boy who could decipher Horace Greeley's handwriting, learned about the theatre as advance agent for a minstrel show. But unlike his brilliant brother Charles (lost on the Lusitania in 1915), who organized huge nationwide theatre combines, he limited his productions to Manhattan and, after 1885, chiefly to one theatre. In the roster of his great Lyceum Theatre Stock Company (with David Belasco as stage manager) were E. H. Sothern, Julia Marlowe, Richard Mansfield, Maude Adams, Henry Miller, many another illustrious name...
Then U-boat warfare, the sinking of the Lusitania, makes Sometown feel angry frustration, determined to do something. But Congressman John Lawton says there is only one thing to be done, and no one wants to go to war. As 1915 falls flaming into 1916, this is true, but Sometowns over the U. S. look toward thin-faced, worried Woodrow Wilson, about to marry Mrs. Gait. When Charles Evans Hughes quits the Supreme Court to run against Wilson, and almost wins, a period in history is already drawing to a close. Sometown's main street sees its first Preparedness...