Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leonard Wood, born in 1860 in Winchester, N. H., entered the U. S. Army as a surgeon, carved his niche in history as an administrator. When Military Governor of Cuba he led the fight to stamp out yellow fever, put a turbulent island in order, ready for independence in 1902. When Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army he became the "Father of Plattsburg, " the creator of civilian military training camps, a staunch friend of "preparedness...
...order to claim that their plan was really the more economical, the British trailed a red herring across the issue as follows. They stated the obvious fact that a small ship costs less than a large one, and then pointed out that their plan called for many ships individually smaller than those proposed by the U. S. delegation. Thus the British said in effect: "We want cherries and you want peaches. A cherry costs less than a peach, and therefore our plan is the cheaper...
...make any discrimination that he desires between the two men?for instance it would be legally possible, though highly unlikely, for him to pardon one of the prisoners and make no intervention on behalf of the other. The only limit on the Governor's authority is his inability to order a new trial...
...William Thomas Manning, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of New York, en route to the Lausanne World Conference on Faith & Order, paused in Paris last week to preach: "We all love France and admire Paris, but the present issuing of Paris divorces is a scandalous, shameful thing, which should be corrected; and I do not hesitate to say this here in this city, for I know the clergy of France and all God-fearing Frenchmen and Frenchwomen will say the same as strongly as I do. . . . [Trial marriages and other haphazard conjugalities] are simply harlotry and calling them by new names does...
With the coming of Tweaker the old order of things is gone. . . . Tweaker is new?different. . . See Tweaker today...