Word: lusitanias
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...fine May morning in 1915, the German submarine U-20, cruising off the Irish coast released a. slender steel projectile into the chill Atlantic. The projectile coursed onward like a speeding shark, nestled against a tender leviathan, and the Lusitania went to the bottom...
...version of the reason of his resignation as Secretary of State was also promulgated (the common story is that he refused to sign the second Lusitania note to Germany). It was said that he had prepared a note to the Austrian Government (accounts of the new version differed as to the exact matter in question) which Mr. Wilson recalled and revised without consulting him, and that he thereupon resigned. Some doubt was cast upon this account...
...that he was made Secretary of State and served over two years, resigning because he did not approve the President's increasing sternness with Germany following the sinking of the Lusitania. From then on his political career dwindled, although he spoke for Wilson in 1916, and was still enough of a factor in 1924 to make it seem worth while to nominate his brother for Vice President. But again the name of Bryan lost...
Born. To William H. Vanderbilt, son of the late Alfred G. Vanderbilt, who lost his life in the Lusitania disaster, and Mrs. Vanderbilt, a daughter (8½ lb.) ; in Manhattan...
...Miss Theodate Pope tied a lifebelt around her, sprang into the sea from the sinking Lusitania. The gentle swell of the ocean rocked her into unconsciousness before the rescue ship Julia saved...