Word: newtons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decided to mark the passing of the first decade since the Great War flung the world into the Maelstrom of Mars*. It wrote to various individuals in various countries, asked them to reply to the question: "What did the World Gain by the World War?" Excerpts from the answers: Newton D. Baker, U. S. Secretary of War during the Wilson Administration: "I believe it is possible now to say that the world is at last convinced that the balance of power theory is an unstable basis for world peace and that international cooperation is the only other plan...
...Prof. Newton, of Cambridge Univ.−The three laws of motion, foundation of all physics and engineering...
...other sessions, other speakers: Winston Churchill, Francis Sisson, Sir Lawrence Weaver, Sir Charles Higham, Stanley Baldwin, Sir Robert Home, Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, Sir Louis Arthur Newton (Lord Mayor of London), Stanley Resor, Edward A. Filene, E. W. Beatty, Viscount Leverhulme, E. T. Meredith, Harry Tipper...
...thirds vote of the House, in April; of the Senate, in May; must be ratified by 36 states to become effective. † Good friends describe Hoke Smith as "tall, well-built, intellectual, forceful, genial, tactful; he does all the things that become a man." He was born at Newton, N. C., 1855, lawyer, journalist, educator, Secretary of the Interior under Cleveland 1893-96, Governor of Georgia 1907-11, U. S. Senator from Georgia...
Married. Howard Leopold, 75, father of Mrs. Newton D. Baker (wife of the onetime U. S. Secretary of War), to Mrs. Angelica Johnson, 59; at Pottstown...