Word: roumania
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meantime fighting Germany with our present military organizations, but we should immediately establish a system such as has been adopted in Switzerland and Austria. The United States has taken on a contract to reinstate Belgium and Poland, and recently, by message of President Wilson, to free Roumania from Austrian control. This is a vast undertaking, but we must fulfill it. Of course we can accomplish our purpose with our present military establishments, but we could do it much better and fully as quickly under the Swiss system. We could raise an army of 500,000 men in seven months...
...Under our present system, at the close of the war, we will not have an army; nor will England and France, already drained by almost three and a half years of war, have one. Yet we have undertaken to free Belgium, Poland and Roumania and to become one of the members of a league to enforce peace. How can we enforce peace or bring about a lasting freedom for those countries if we do not have an adequate army? If we should adopt the Swiss system we would have a large citizen army which could be called into action...
...called a pitcher on the Boston Red Sox; Mr. Gompers was accused of being a city in France or possibly South America; among the Maine senators were named Johnson, Burleigh, Hale, Fernald, Peters, McGillicuddy, Guernsey, and Cobb; Combles was called a town in France, also a place in Roumania; Thomas Mott Osborne was given the titles of ex-convict and novel writer; Bucharest was located on four continents, six countries in Europe and as a city on the mouth of a river in India; Mr. Marshall was named as a United States senator and the greatest justice of the Supreme...
...great causes of disturbance in the Balkan countries and their neighbors today. This distortion of boundaries is due to historical causes. Since Austria drove the Turks from Hungary, she has continually attempted to check the southern Slav, grasping territory whenever possible. During the nineteenth century, Servia, Greece, Roumania, and Bulgaria freed themselves from the Turk, and by a concerted effort in 1912, almost drove him from Europe...
...American Federation of Arts. At the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Mr. Millet was the director of decorations and the director of functions. In recognition of his services in the Russo-Turkish war of 1878, he received the decorations of the military crosses of Russia and Roumania. In 1900 Mr. Millet was elected to the Legion of Honor...