Word: much
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discover why the Army cost so much President Hoover instructed Secretary of War Good to appoint a special commission for the General Staff. Specifically this commission was to "see what services and other outlays have become obsolete through advancement of science and war methods; and what development programs can well be spread over longer periods in view of the general world outlook." To his Shenandoah camp President Hoover took as week-end guests to ponder this problem Secretary Good, Assistant Secretaries Hurley and Davison, Chief of Staff Summerall. It was decided to let the General Staff instead of a commission...
...giving dry advice to Drinker Anderson, Newsman Upshaw went back and wrote his story. It was headlined: BOOZE PARTIES LED LIL ASTRAY UPSHAW LEARNS. Personally, Newsman Upshaw has seen no booze parties in Manhattan. "New York is a city of great rectitude," he explained. "I'd heard so much about the wickedness of it before I came here this time that I was greatly interested to see what truth there was in it. Why, I haven't seen a drunken person since I've been here! Maybe there is drinking, but in a city of six million...
...decided. While he is at home she dies. There are men and women, humor, sadness and struggle in this picture. It misses being a great picture only because its story is not a big enough framework for its implications and because the actors have their own way too much. You feel that it would be better if its workmanship were not so finicky. Half of it is silent and half in dialog. The silent part is the most effective. Best shot: Miss Wood teaching her family to sing Christmas carols...
...Congress. While the aim of the Federation is to discuss the significant movements in education, this year it is being devoted especially to the promotion of peace through education. Prof. Gilbert Murray of Oxford. President of the League of Nations Committee of Intellectual Cooperation, warned against expecting too much from teaching citizenship, foreign languages, or from travel. He concluded. "... A better road to international goodwill is to cultivate common memories, associations, and aims. That is. to cultivate such subjects as ancient history, Latin, or physical science...
...Britain's prime ministers were assembled in London for the Empire Exhibition at Wembley. Not without much shrewd wangling and entirely "on his own," Painter Chandor got them all to sit together for a monster canvas which, when finished, was given a place of honor in the Government's pavilion at Wembley and later hung permanently in the Colonial Office. This piece of work entrenched Painter Chandor, at 27, in the very front rank of his profession...