Word: northerner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Boston. Among the thirty members of the Board who are expected at the meeting are Major General Leonard Wood; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Senator Henry Cabot Lodge; Howard Eliot, former President of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and now President of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company; Arthur Woods, assistant to the Secretary of War, and formerly police commissioner of New York City; Ellery Sedgwick, editor of the Atlantic Monthly; Owen Wister, the novelist; W. Cameron Forbes, ex-Governor of the Philippines; Joseph Lee of Boston, President of the War Camp Community Service...
Major James Alfred Roosevelt '07 died aboard the transport Great Northern, which was due in New York yesterday, while on his way back from France to arrange for the reception of the 77th Division. He went over as a captain and became commander of the 302nd Ammunition Train. Major Roosevelt was a second cousin to the late Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and a nephew of President Lowell...
...Every member of our Unit has made lasting fiendships with the English. Many of us were detached to other hospitals which were understaffed when the big push was on, and so I am sure that by rubbing shoulders with the British officers and Tommies throughout all Northern France, by giving them our best efforts when they were down to iron rations last spring, the University's Unit accomplished untold good in furthering the spirit of co-operation between the two great English speaking peoples
...valiant little Army in Northern Russia has been defeated again by the reorganized forces of the Reds. We can picture the feelings of the Allied officers and men placed up there in the Russian winter, not to win a victory and crush the forces of the Bolsheviki--the Army is obviously too small for that--but to keep fighting somehow against perilous odds that the Allies might not be accused of passively accepting anarchy...
...there only four American battalions in the far-off frozen section of Northern Russia? Because the Administration is unwilling to send a larger force thither. Why are the columns of the Allies and Russians "thin"? Because the same Administration opposed the despatch of a larger Allied force. Why is the Administration opposed to effective intervention in Russia? Because American Bolshevists and pacifists have enough influence with the Administration to intimidate it into limiting its action in Russia to the feeble but fatal performance pictured this week in the despatches from Archangel. It is a repetition in Russia, as our neighbor...